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Election Laws 


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UNITED STATES. 


TOGETHER WITH THE 

Begistry m Election Uf 


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STATE OF NEW YORK, , 

RELATING TO ELECTIONS IN THE CITY AND 
COUNTY OF NEW YORK. 


NEW YORK: 

PRINTED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE U 8. CHIEF SUPER¬ 
VISOR OF ELECTIONS, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. 

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REVISED STATUTES 


TJlSriTED STATES. 


TITLE XXV. 

CITIZENSHIP.. 

Sec. 1996. All persons who deserted the military or naval Deserters who 
service of the United States, and did not return thereto 
or report themselves to a provost-marshal within sixty U; 

days after the issuance of the proclamation by the Pi'esi- 
dent, dated the 11th day of March. 1865, are deemed to the united 
have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their rights cfe*ng any 
of citizenship, as well as their right t© become citizens ;St£enship. 
and such deserters shall be forever incapable of holding 
any office of trust or protit under the United States, or of 
exercising any rights of citizens thereof. 

Sec. 1997. No soldier or sailor, however, who faithfully Faithful service 
served according to his enlistment until the 19th day ofSnOTuSu^ 
April, 1865, and who, without proper authority or leave ^rdUmed^^to^^ 
tirst obtained, quit his command or refused to serve after 
that date, shall be held to be a deserter from the Army ormcuned under 
Navy; but this section shall be construed solely as a re-ticTn.'’^^”® 
moval of any disability such soldier or sailor may have in¬ 
curred, under the preceding section, by the loss of citizenship 
and of the right to hold office, in consequence of his deser¬ 
tion. 

Sec. 1998. Every person who hereafter deserts the Desertion here- 
military or naval service of the United States, or who, loss of citizen¬ 
being duly enrolled, departs the jurisdiction of the district 
in which he is enrolled, or goes beyond the limits of the 
United States, with intent to avoid any draft into the mili¬ 
tary or naval service, lawfully ordered, shall be liable to all 
the penalties and forteitures of section nineteen hundred 
and ninety-six. 




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TITLE XXVI. 


THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. 


to military or naval officer, or other person 

use troops at engaged in the civil, military or naval service of the (Jiiited 
sav?torepe\'°°® States, shall order, bring, keep, or have under his authority 
S“to^keep“the control, any troops or armed men at the place where any 
peace. general or special election is held in any State, unless it be 

necessary to repel the armed enemies of the United States^ 
or to keep the peace at the polls. 


Sec. 2003. No officer of the Army or Navy of th^ 


Military or 
naval officers 

JSalificatSns of United States shall prescribe or fix, or attempt to pre 
voters. scribe or fix, by proclamation, order, or otherwise, the 

qualitications of Yoters in any State, or in any manner 
interfere with the freedom of any election in any State, 
or with the exercise of the free right of suffrage in any 
State. 


^?e^lious°^Sn(S^ citizens of the United States who are 

tion of servi-otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the 

Sect “thVrigbt people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, 
Sec^iS. parish, township, school district, municipality, or other 
territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed te 

vote at all such elections, without distinction of race, 
color, or previous condition of servitude* any constitu¬ 
tion, law, custom, usage or regulation of any State or 

Territory, or by or under its authority, to the contrary 
n ot withstandin g. 

If the perfor- gEc. 2005. When, under the authority of the constitu- 
prerequisite to tioii 01 * laws ot ally State, 01 * the laws ot any lerritory 
votin?i8?l any act is required to be done as a prerequisite or quaii 
oJpOT^uffi^^^to filiation for voting, and by such constitution or laws- 
^fJ^en^toaii pcrsoiis or officcrs are charged with the duty of furnish¬ 
ing to citizens an opportunity to perforin such pre¬ 
requisite, or to become qualified to vote, every such per¬ 
son and officer shall give to all citizens of the United 
States the same and equal opportunity to perform such 
prerequisite, and to become qualified to vote. 

Sec. 2006. Every person or officer charged with the 
fusing or know-duty Specified in the preceding section, who refuses or 
knowingly omits to give full effect to that section, shall 
pfeceding^sec- forfeit tlic Bum of five hundred dollars to the party 
aggrieved by such Tefusal or omission, to be recovered 
by an action on the case, with costs, and such allowance 
for counsel fees as the court may deem pist. 


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Sec. 2007. Whenever under the authority of the con- -me offer to per- 
stitution or laws of any State, or the laws of any Territory, pre^equfsu^to 
any act is required to be done by a citizen as a prerequisite voting, if it fail, 
to qualify or entitle him to vote, the offer of such citizen to deemed a^ per- 
perform the act required to be done shall, if it fail to be JawTf’SfctTact, 
carried into execution by reason of the wrongful act or 
omission of the person or officer charged with the duty of 
receiving or permitting such performance or offer to per¬ 
form, or acting thereon, be deemed and held as a perfor¬ 
mance in law of such act; and the person so offering and 
failing to vote, and being otherwise qualified, shall be 
entitled to vote in the same manner and to the same 
extent as if he had in fact performed such act. 


Sec, 2008. Every judge, inspector, or other officer of Remedy against 
election whose duty it is to receive, count, certify, register, wnJugfufrefu- 
report, or give effect to the vote of such citizen, who 
wrongfully refuses or omits to receive, count, certify, such person 

. ° ^ ^ \ ^ upon presenta- 

register, report, or give effect to the vmte ot such citizen tiou of proper 

upon the presentation by him of his affidavit, stating such 

offer and the time and place thereof, and the name of 

the officer or person whose duty it was to act thereon, and 

that he was wrongfully prevented by such person or 

officer from performing such act, shall forfeit the sum of 

five hundred dollars to the party aggrieved by such refusal 

or omission, to be recovered by an action on the case, 

with costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the 

court may deem just. 

Sec. 2009. Every officer or other person, having powers Remedy against 
or duties of an official character to discharge under any y°[awfuiiy ob-° 
of the provisions of this Title, who by threats, or any 
unlawful means, hinders, delays, prevents, or obstructs tying i>uu«eif t© 
or combines and confederates with others to hinder, votig.’^ 
delay, prevent, or obstruct any citizen from doing any act 
required to be done to qualify him to vote, or from 
voting at any election in any State, Territory, district, 
county, city, parish, township, school district, munici¬ 
pality, or other territorial subdivision, shall forfeit the 
sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved 
thereby, to be recovered by an action on the case, with 
costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the court 
may deem just. 

Sec. 2010. Whenever any person is defeated or de- 
prived of his election to any office, except elector of prived of office 
President or Vice-President, Representative or Delegate vote ©“any dti- 
in Congress, or member of a State legislature, by reason 


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of his race or 
color, to bling 
suit for posses¬ 
sion of such 
office in United 
States Courts. 


Jurisdiction of 
national courts 
in such cases. 


of the denial to any citizen who may offer to vote, of the 
right to vote, on account of race, color, or previous con¬ 
dition of servitude, his right to hold and enjoy such 
office, and the emoluments thereof, shall not be impaired 
by such denial; and the person so defeated or deprived 
may bring any appropriate suit or proceeding to recover 
possession of such office, and in cases where it appears 
that the sole question touching the title to such office 
arises out of the denial of the right to vote to citizens who 
so offered to vote, on account of race, color, or previous 
condition of servitude, such suit or proceeding may be 
instituted in the circuit or district court of the United 
States of the circuit or district in which such person re¬ 
sides. And the circuit or district court shall have, con¬ 
currently with the State courts, jurisdiction thereof, so far 
as to determine the rights of the parties to such office by 
reason of the denial of the right guaranteed by the fifteenth 
article of amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States, and secured herein. 


In cities or Sec- 2011. Whenever in any city or town having up- 
2 o 5 oo?nhJbb ^ai’d of twenty thousand inhabitants, there are two citizens 
tants. upon the thereof, or whenever, in any county or parish, in any 
tion of two citi- coiigressional district, there are ten citizens thereof ot good 
county or Standing, wlio, prioi’ to any registration of voters for an ' 
far^^^jpUcSSn election foi’ Representative or Delegate in the Congress of 

oftencitiz-ns, tile United States, or prior to any election at which a Rep- 
the circuit judge . -p. ’ ^- 2.1 i. j ^ 

to open.the.cir- rcsentativc or Delegate in Congress is to be voted for, may 

cm court. niake known, in writing, to the judge of the circuit court 

of the United States for the circuit wherein such city, or 

town, county or parish, is situated, their desire to have 

such registration, or such election, or both, guarded and 

scrutinized, the judge, within not less than ten days prior 

to the registration, if one there be, or, if no registration be 

required, within not less than ten days prior to the election, 

shall open the circuit court at the most convenient point 

in the circuit. 

Proceedings for Seo. 2012. The coui’t, wlien so opened by the judge, 

ment ol supervi- shall proceed to appoint and commission, from day to day 
sors of election. from time to time, and under the hand of the judge, 

and under the seal of the court, for each election district 
or voting precinct in such city or town, or for such 
election district or voting precinct in the congressional 
district, as may have applied in the manner hereinbefore 
prescribed, and to revoke, change, or renew such appoint- 
‘ ^ ment from time to time, two citizens, residents of the 
city or town, or of the election district or voting precinct 
in'^ tlie county or parish, who shall be of different 


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political parties, and able to read and write the English Qualifications 
language, and who shall be known and designated as 
supervisors of election. 

Sec. 2013. The circuit court, when opened by the judge court to be kept 
as required in the two preceding sections, shall therefrom 
and thereafter, and up to and including the day following 
the day of election, be always open for the transaction of 
business under this Title, and the powers and jurisdiction 
hereby granted and conferred shall be exercised as well in 
vacation as in term time; and a judge sitting at chambers 
shall have the same powers and jurisdiction, including the in vacation or at 
power of keeping order and of punishing any contempt of*^ 
his authority, as when sitting in court. 

Sec 2014. Whenever, from any cause, the judge of the District judges 
circuit court in any judicial circuit is unable to perform SYcUnpTS^*^ 
and discharge the duties herein imposed, he is. required 
to select and assign to the performance thereof, in his 
place, such one of the judges of the district courts within 
his circuit as he may deem best; and upon such selection 
and assignment being made, the district judge so desig¬ 
nated shall perform and discharge, in the place of the 
circuit judge, all the duties, powers and obligations im¬ 
posed and conferred upon the circuit judge by the pro¬ 
visions hereof. 

Sec. 2015. The preceding section shall be construed to how precedung 
authorize each of the judges of the circuit courts of the consTrue^^^^ 
United States to designate one or more of the judges of 
the district courts within his circuit to discharge the duties 
arising under this Title. 

Sec.’ 2016. The supervisors of election, so appointed, 
are authorized and required to attend at all times anduon. 
places hx'ed tor the registration of voters, who, being to attend at 
registered, would be entitled to vote for a Representative try^^ 
or Delegate in Congress, and to challenge any person 
offering to register; to attend at all times and places challenge, 
when the names of registered voters mav be marked for and mark regis- 

^ 1 '"•ij xi tered names for 

ciiallenge, and to cause such names registered as they challenge, 
may deem proper to be so marked; to make, when re- make lists 
quired, the lists, or either of them, provided for in sec- 
tion two thousand and twenty-six, and verify the same ; verify same, 
and upon any occasion, and at any time? when in attend¬ 
ance upon the duty herein prescribed, to personally in-JerutS^e th^^ 
spect and scrutinize such registry, and for purposes 
identification to affix their signature to each page of 
original list, and of each copy of any sucli list of regis-booksf& 


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tered voters, at such times, upon each day when any 
name may be received, entered, or registered, and in such 
manner as will, in their judgment, detect and expose the 
improper or wrongful removal therefrom, or addition 
tliereto, of any name. 

attend'itpoiiaig supcrvisoi’s of election are authorized 

places; and required to attend at all times and places for holding 

elections of Kepresentatives or Delegates in Congress, 
and for counting the votes cast at such elections; to chal- 
offered by any person whose legal quali- 
andremain fication the supciwisors, or either of them, may doubt; 
boxes are kept to be and remain where the ballot-boxes are kept at all 
and reSiraslre* timcs after tlic polls are open until every vote cast at such 
made; time and place has been counted, the canvass of all votes 

polled wholly completed, and the proper and requisite 
certificates or returns made, whether the certificates or 
returns be required under any law of the United States, or 
any State, territorial or municipal law, and to personally- 
To scrutinize inspcct aiid Scrutinize, frovu time to time, and at all times, 

the manner in i i i i . • 

which the vot- ou the day ot election, the manner m which the voting is 
Jefiltry and poll done, and the way and method in wliich the poll-books, 
books are kept, registry-lists, and tallies or check-books, whether the same 
are required by any law of the United States, or any State, 
territorial or municipal law, are kept. 


Supervisors to 
personally scru¬ 
tinize and count 
each and every 
ballot in each 
and every box; 


To forward to 
chief supervisor 
such certificates 
and returns as 
he may require; 


To attach any 
proper state¬ 
ment to any cer¬ 
tificate, state¬ 
ment or return. 


Sec. 2018 . To the end that each candidate for the office 
of Representative or Delegate in Congress may obtain 
the benefit of every vote for him cast, the supervisors of 
election are, and each of them is, required to personally 
scrutinize, count and canvass each ballot in their elec¬ 
tion district or voting precinct cast, wliatever may be 
the indorsement on the ballot, or in whatever box it may 
have been placed or be found ; to make and forward to 
the officer who, in accordance with the provisions of 
section two thousand and twenty-five, has been desig¬ 
nated as the chief supervisor of the judicial district in 
which the city or town wherein they may serve, [acts,] 
sucli certificates and returns of all such ballots as such 
officer may direct and require, and to attach to the 
registry-list, and any and all copies thereof, and to any 
certificate, statement, or return, whether the same, or 
any part or portion thereof, be required by any law of 
the United States or of any State, territorial or muni¬ 
cipal law, any statement touching the truth or accuracy 
of tlie registry, or the truth or fairness of the election 
and canvass, which the supervisors of tlie election, or 
either of tliein, nriv desire to 'make or attacli, or which 


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•should properly and honestly be made or attached, iu 
order that the facts may become known. 

Sec. 2019. The better to enable the supervisors of election supervisors to 
to discharge their duties, they are authorized and directed, Sre^o^behind 
in their respective election districts or voting precincts, on deem 

the day of registration, on the day when registered voters^®®*^^^^ pui*- 

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may be marked to be challenged, and on the day oi election, izin« registry 
to take, occupy, and remain in such position, from time to“ 
time, whether before or behind the ballot-boxes, as will, in 
their judgment, best enable them to see each person ofiering 
himself for registration or offering to vote, and as will best 
•conduce to their scrutinizing the manner in which the regis¬ 
tration or voting is being conducted; and at the closing of At dosing of 
the polls for the reception of votes, they are required to such piace^L 
place themselves in such position, in relation to the ballot- 
boxes, for the purpose of engaging in the work of canvass-their 
ing the ballots, as will enable them to fully perform the du- to canvass, 
ties in respect to such canvass. provided herein, and shall 
there remain until every duty in respect to such canvass, 
•certificates, returns and statements has been wholly com¬ 
pleted. 

Sec. 2020. When in aiiy election district or voting pre-supervisors are 
•cinct in any city or town, for which there have been ap- oaof 
pointed supervisors of election for any election at which ^ ^twn’ten^ days 
Representative or Delegate in Congress is voted for, the after election, 
supervisors of election are not allowed to exercise andSSomhn- 
discharge, fully and freely, and without bribery, solicita-v^oilncTonThe 
tion, interference, hinderance, molestation, violence oi’gortowarL^^*^* 
threats thereof, on the part of any person, all tlie duties, them, 
obligations and powers conferred upon them by law, the 
supervisors of election shall make prompt report, under 
oath, within ten days after the day of election, to the 
officer who, in accordance with the provisions of section 
two thousand and twenty-five, has been designated as 
the chief supervisor of the judicial district in which the 
city or town wherein they served [acts], of the man¬ 
ner and means by which they were not so allowed to 
fully and freely exercise and discharge the duties and 
obligations required and imposed herein. And upon re¬ 
ceiving any such report, the chief supervisor, • acting both ©uty of chief 
in such capacity and officially as a commissioner of tbe “ 

■circuit court, shall forthwith examine into all the facts; 
and he shall have power to subpoena and compel the 
attendance before him of any witnesses, and to admin¬ 
ister oaths and take testimony in respect to the charges 
made; and, prior to the assembling of tlie Congress for 


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which any such Eepresentative or Delegate was voted 
for, he shall file with the Clerk of the House of Repre¬ 
sentatives all the evidence by him taken, all intormation 
by him obtained, and all reports to him made. 

In cities or Sec. 2021. Whenever an election at which Representa- 
SbiS’^ tives or Delegates in Congress are to be chosen is held in 
^^y city or town of twenty thousand inhabitants or up¬ 
states^ upon the ward, the marshal for the district in which the city or town 
of two“cH§;en?. is situatcd, sliall, on the application, in writing, of at least 
deputiS^^^* two citizens residing in such city or town, appoint special 
deputy marshals, whose duty it shall be, when required 
Duties of such thereto, to aid and assist the supervisors of election in 
deputies. verification of any list of persons who may have 

registered or voted ; to attend in each election district 
or voting precinct at the times and places fixed for the 
registration of voters, and at all times and places, when 
and where the registration may by law be scrutinized 
and the names of registered voters be marked for chal¬ 
lenge; and also to attend, at all times for holding elec¬ 
tions, the polls in such district or precinct. 


They shall keep 
the peace and 
prevent fraud, 
&c. 


May arrest with¬ 
out process, 


provided offence 
is committed in 
presence of any 
supervisor or 
deputy marshal. 


But on day of 
election only for 
offences com¬ 
mitted on that 
day. 


Sec. 2022. The marshal and his general deputies, and 
such special deputies, shall keep the peace and support 
and protect the supervisors of election in the discharge 
of their duties, preserve order at such places of registra¬ 
tion and at such polls, prevent fraudulent registration and 
fraudulent voting thereat, or fraudulent conduct on the 
part of any officer of election, and immediately, either 
at the place of registration or polling place, ^or elsewhere,, 
and either before or after registering pr voting, to arrest 
and take into custody, with or without process, any per¬ 
son who commits, or attempts or offers to commit, any 
of the acts or offences proliibited herein, or who com¬ 
mits any offence against the laws of the United States; 
but no person shall be arrested without process for 
any offence not committed in the presence of the mar¬ 
shal or his general or special deputies, or either of them, 
or of the supervisors of election or either of them^; and, 
for the purposes of arrest or the preservation of the peace, 
the supervisors of election shall, in the absence of the 
marshal’s deputies, or if required to assist such deputies, 
have tlie same duties and powers as deputy marshals; nor 
shall any person, on the day of such election, be arrested 
without process for any offence committed on the day of 
registration. 


Ste°dtoTe Whenever any arrest is made under any 

forthwith taken provision of tliis Title, the person so arrested shall forth- 


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with be brought before a commissioner, judge, or court of before u.s. com- 
the United States for examination of the offences alleged 
against him ; and such commissioner, judge, or court shall 
proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law in case of 
crimes against the United States. 

Sec. 2024. The marshal or his general deputies, or such ^he marshal, 
special deputies as are thereto specially empowered by 
him, in writing, and under his hand and seal, whenever specially em- 
he or either or any of them is forcibly resisted in executing dentil! whel? 
their duties under this title, or shall, by violence, threats or dS^^^ig 
menaces, be prevented from executing such duties, or ff’oni 
arresting any person who has committed any offence for can 
which the marshal or his general or his special deputies are them, 
authorized to make such arrest, are, and each of them is, 
empowered to summon and call to his aid the bystanders or 
posse comitatus of his district. 

Sec. 2025. The circuit courts *of the United States for 

j ' a . ix* Circuit Courts 

, each juaiciai circuit shall name and appoint, on or beiore before May i, 
the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred nnd 
seventy-one, and thereafter as vacancies may from 
cause arise, from among the circuit court commissioners visor of Eiec- 
for each judicial district in each judicial circuit, one of disS-ictTnwhich 
such officers, who shall be known for the duties required commxs- 
of him under this Title as the chief supervisor of elec¬ 
tions of the judicial district for which he is a commis¬ 
sioner, and shall, so long as faithful and capable, discharge 
the duties in this Title imposed. 

Sec. 2026. The chief supervisor shall prepare and fur¬ 
nish all necessary books, forms, blanks, and instructionsg^ti^e^of^chief 
for the use and direction of the supervisors of election in 
the several cities and towns in their respective districts ; 
he shall receive the applications of all parties for ap¬ 
pointment to such positions ; upon the opening, as con¬ 
templated in section two thousand and twelve, of the 
circuit court for the judicial circuit in which the commis¬ 
sioner so designated acts, he shall present such applica¬ 
tions to the judge thereof, and furnish information to 
him in respect to the appointment by the court of such 
supervisors of election; he shall require of the super¬ 
visors of elections, when necessary, lists of the persons 
who may register and vote, or either, in their respective 
election districts or voting precincts, and cause the 
names of those upon any such list whose right to regis 
ter or vote is honestly doubted to be verified by proper 
inquiry and examination at the respective places by them 
assigned as their residences; and he shall receive, pre- 


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The Marshal 
and all U. S. 
Oominissioners 
in each district 
performing any 
duties under 
this act, to for¬ 
ward all papers 
to Chief Super¬ 
visor of their 
district. 


serve, and tile all oaths of ottice of supervisors of election, 
’and of all special deputy marshals appointed under'the pro¬ 
visions of this Title, and all certificates, returns, reports, and 
records of every kind and nature contemplated or made re¬ 
quisite by the provisions hereof, save where otherwise here¬ 
in specially directed. 

Sec. 2027. All United States marshals and commission¬ 
ers who in any judicial district perform any duties under 
the preceding provisions relating to, concerning, or affect¬ 
ing the election * of Representatives or Delegates in the 
Congress of the United States, from time to time, and with 
all due diligence, shall forward to the chief supervisor 
in and for their judicial district, all complaints, examina¬ 
tions, and records pertaining thereto, and all oaths of office 
by them administered to any supervisor of election or 
special deputy marshal, in order that the same may be pro¬ 
perly preserved and filed. 

Sec. 2028. Ro person shall be appointed a supervisor 
of election or a deputy marshal, under the preceding 


Supervi.sor8 
must be quali- 

ihe clfyOT^oun-provisions, wlio is ’not, at the time of his'appointment, 

ty, &c., in which ' . . - 

they are ap¬ 
pointed to dis¬ 
charge their 
duties. 


Supervisors ap¬ 
pointed for 
places other 
than cities of 
20,000 inhabit¬ 
ants, to have no 
power to arrest, 
or do more than 
witness pro- 
oeedinge. 


a qualified voter of the city, town, county, parish, elec¬ 
tion district, or voting precinct in which his duties are to 
be performed. 

Sec. 2029. The supervisors of election appointed for any 
county or parish in any congressional district, at the in¬ 
stance of ten citizens, a^ provided in section two thousand 
and eleven, shall have no authority to make arrests, or to 
perform other duties than to be in the immediate pres¬ 
ence of the officers holding the election, and to witness 
all their proceedings, including the counting of the votes 
and their making of a return thereof. 


Appointment of Sec. 2030. Nothing in ^ this Title shall be construed to 
sbTis^be^o^nd autliorize the appointment of aiiy marshalsi or deputy 
fzTd prio?ti^°^* addition to those authorized -by law, prior to 

June 10 ,1872, the tenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy- 

by this Title. tWO. 

Sec. 2031. There shall be allowed and paid to the 
chief supervisor, for his services as such officer, the fol¬ 
lowing compensation, apart from and in excess of all 
fees allowed by law for the performance of any duty as 
circuit court commissioner : For filing and caring for 
every return, report, record, document, or other paper 
required to be tiled by him under any of the preceding 
provisions, ten cents; for affixing a seal to an}* paper, 
record, report, or instrument, twenty cents ; for entering 


Pay of Chief 
Supervisor. 


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and indexing the records of liis office, fifteen cents per 
folio ; and for arranging and transmitting to Congress, as 
provided for in section two thousand and twenty, any re¬ 
port, statement, record, return, or examination, for each 
lolio, fifteen cents; and for any copy thereof, or of any 
paper on file, a like sum. And there shall be allowed and 
paid to each supervisor of election, and each special deputy Pay of super- 
marshal who is appointed and performs his duty under the spSf^Deputy 
preceding provisions, compensation at the rate of five dollars 
per day for each day he is actually on duty, not exceeding 
ten days; but no compensation sliall be allowed, in any No compenaa- * 
case, to supervisors of election, except to those appointed tisors” 337 ^ 111 * 
in cities or towns of twenty thousand or more inhabitants. 

And the fees of the cliief supervisors shall be paid at thei^^^^ts- 
Treasury of the United States, such accounts to be made Fees of cMef 
out, verified, examined, and certified as in the case cfbeparnTyu^i 
accounts of commissioners, save that the examination of 
certificate required may be made by either the circuit or 
district judge. ' 


TITLE XXX. 

NATURALIZATION. 

Sec. 2166. Any alien, of the age of twenty-one years , 

and upwards, who has enlisted, or may enlist, in tlie armies from the miii- 
of the United States, either the regular or the volunteer be'^na^^raiiLd 
forces, and has been, or may be hereafter, honorably dis- 
charged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United 
States, upon his petition, without an}^ previous declaration 
of his intention to become such ; and he shall not be re¬ 
quired to prove more than one year’s residence within the 
United States previous to his application to become such 
citizen; and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition 
to such proof of residence and good moral character, as now 
provided by law, be satisfied by competent proof of such 
person’s having been honorably discharged from the service 
of the United States. 

Sec. 2167. Any alien, being under the age of twenty- mi- 
one years, who has resided in the United States 
years next preceding his arriving at that age, and who has after five years* 
continued to reside tlierein to the time he may make ap-cfudlngTbe^^' 
plication to be admitted a citizen thereof, may, after 'he 
arrives at the age of twenty-one years, and after he has without making 
resided five years within the United otates, including tlie intention prior 
three years of Ids minority, be admitted a citizen of tliOsi’on!^^^'^ ^ 


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United States, without having made the declaration required 
in the first condition of section twentj-one hundred and 
sixty-five; but such alien shall make the declaration required 
therein at the time of his admission; and shall further de- 
clai’e, on oath, and prove to the satisfaction of the court, 
that, for two years next preceding, it has been his bona fide 
intention to become a citizen of the United States; and he 
shall in all other respects comply with the laws in regard to 
naturalization. 

provisions of this title shall apply to 
sons. ^ aliens of African nativity and to persons of African de¬ 
scent. 


To become a ^Ec. 2170. No alien shall be admitted to become a 
citizen nninter-citizen who lias iiot for the Continued term of five years 
dence for five next preceding Ins admission resided within the United 

years required, 

SSurSiS^ Sec. 2172, The children of persons who have been duly 
Stizens*^^^ naturalized Under any law of the United States, or who, 
previous to the passing of any law on that subject by the 
Government of the United States, may have become citizens 
of any one of the States, under the laws thereof, being 
under the age of twenty one years at the time of the 
naturalization of their parents, shall, if dwelling in the 
United States, be considered as citizens thereof; and the 
children of persons who now are, or have been, citizens of 
the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and 
jurisdiction of the United States, be considered as citizens 
thereof; but no person heretofore proscribed by any State, 
or who has been legally convicted of having joined the 
army of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War, 
shall be admitted to become a citizen without the consent of 
the legislature of the State in which such person was pro¬ 
scribed. 


Exceptions. 


Seamen, being 
foreigners may 
become citizens 
by declaring in¬ 
tent and serv¬ 
ing three years 
in merchant 
service. 


When to be 
deemed citizens 
for purpose of 
manning or 
serving on 


Sec. 2174. Every seaman, being a foreigner, who de¬ 
clares his intention of becoming a citizen of tlie United 
States in any competent court, and shall have served 
three years on board of a merchant-vessel of the United 
States subsequent to the date of such declaration, may, 
on his application to any competent court, and the pro¬ 
duction of his certificate of discharge and good conduct 
during that time, together with the certificate of his de¬ 
claration of intention to become a citizen, be admitted a 
citizen of the United States; and every seaman, being a 
foreigner, shall, after his declaration of intention to be¬ 
come a citizen of the United States, and after he shall 
have served such three years, be deemed a citizen of the 


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United States for the purpose of manning and serving board Americaa 
on board any merchant vessel of the ITnited States, any- 
thing to the contrary in any act of Congress notwith¬ 
standing; but such seaman shall, for all purposes ofJo^protiuon*^ 
protection as an American citizen, be deemed such, after after nung deo- 
the filing of his declaration of intention to become such ISent.^ 
citizen. 


TITLE EXX. 

Chapter Five.—Forgeries, Frauds, etc. 

Sec. 5424. Every person applying to be admitted a citi- 
zen, or aiipearin^ as a witness for any such person, who connection with 
knowingly personates any other person than himself, or uon of aliens' 
falsely appears in the name of a deceased person, or in an p^n^Jy^aerS.*^ 
assumed or fictitious name, or falsely makes, forges or coun-^®^- 
terfeits any oath, notice, affidavit, certificate, order, record, 
signature, or other instrument, paper or proceeding required 
or authorized by any law relating to or providing for the 
naturalization of aliens; or who utters, sells, disposes of, or 
uses as true or genuine, or for any unlawful purpose, any 
false, forged, ante-dated, or counterfeit oath, notice, certifi¬ 
cate, order, record, signature, instrument, paper, or proceed¬ 
ing above specified; or sells or disposes of to any person 
other than the person for whom it was originally issued any 
certificate of citizenship, or certificate showing any person 
to be admitted a citizen, shall be punished by imprison¬ 
ment at hard labor not less than one year, nor more than 
five years, or by a fine of not less than three hundred nor 
more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment. 

Sec. 5425. Every person who uses, or attempts to use,P«"^J<^y/of^.^g 
or aids, or assists, or participates *in the use of any certifi- 
cate of citizenship, knowing the same to be forged, or coun- ceniSeV/ 
terfeit, or ante-dated, or knowing the same to have 
been procured by fraud, or otherwise unlawfully obtained; 
or who, without lawful excuse, knowingly is possessed 
of any false, forged, ante-dated, or counterfeit certifi¬ 
cate of citizenship, purporting to have been issued under 
the provisions of any law of the United States relating to 
naturalization, knowing such certificate to be false, forged, 
ante-dated, or counterfeit, with intent unlawfully to use the 
same ;®or obtains, accepts, or receives any certificate of citi¬ 
zenship known to such person to have been procured by 
fraud or by the use of any false name, or by means of any 
false statement made with intent to procure, or to aid in 


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procuring, the issue of such certificate, or known to such 
person to be fraudulently altered or anterdated ; and every 
person who has been or may be admitted to be a citizen 
who, on oath or by affidavit, knowingly denies that he has- 
been so admitted, with intent to evade or avoid any duty 
or liability imposed or required by law, shall be imprisoned 
at hard labor not less than one year nor more than five 
years, or be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor 
more than one thousand dollars, or both such punishments 
may be imposed. 

Penalty for Sec. 5426. Every person who in any manner uses for 
SSJ'any purpose of registering as a voter, or as evidence of a 

leScite vote, OP otherwise, unlawfully, any order, certifi- 

naturaiization cate of citizensliip, 01 * certificate, judgment, or exemplifi- 
registSon^or^^ cation, .showing any person to be admitted to be a citizen, 
voting. whether heretofore or hereafter issued or made, knowing 

that such order or certificate, judgment, or exemplifica¬ 
tion has been unlawfully issued or made; and every per¬ 
son who unlawfully uses, or attempts to use, any such 
order or certificate, issued to or in the name of any other 
person, or in a fictitious name, or the name of a deceased 
person, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor 
not less than one year nor more than five years, or b}^ a 
fine of not less than three hundred nor more than one 
thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprison¬ 
ment. 

Penalty lor Sec. 5427. Every person who knowingly and intention- 

SteSfonlify 01 ’ abets any person in the commission , of any 
aitog &c., the fgiQny denounced in the three preceding sections, or at- 

doing of acts i ^ i ^ i ^ i 

prohibited in tcmpts to do anv act therein made lelony, or counsels, 
eections. advises or procures, or attempts to procure, tlie commis¬ 

sion thereof, shall be punished in the same manner and to 
the same extent as the pHncipal party. 


Penalty for 
using papers 
procured by 
fraud or with¬ 
out appearance 
in court. 


Penalty for 
fraudulently 
representing 
one’s self to be 
a citizen. 


Sec. 5428. Every person who knowingly uses any cer¬ 
tificate of naturalization heretofore granted by any court, 
or hereafter granted, which has been or may be procured 
through fraud or by false evidence, or has been or may 
be issued by the clerk, or any other officer of the court, 
without any appearance and hearing of the applicant in 
court and without lawful authority; and every person 
who falsely represents himself to be a citizen of the 
United States, without having been duly admitted to 
citizenship, for any fraudulent purpose whatever, shall 
be punishable bv a fine of not more than one thousand 


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dollars, or be imprisoned not more than two years, or 
both. 

m 

Sec. 5429. The provisions of the five preceding sections 
snail apply to all proceedings had or taken, or attempted to apply to 
to be had or taken, before any court in which any pro- oJattempted to 
ceeding for naturalization may be commenced or 
tempted to be commenced. 


TITLE LXX. 


Chapter Seven.—Crimes Against the Elective Fran¬ 
chise AND Civil Rights of Citizens. 


Sec. 5506. Every person who, by any unlawful means, 
hinders, delays, prevents or obstructs, or combines and con- penalties for 
federates with others to hinder, delay, prevent, or obstruct, ^nSngi^“^ 
any citizen from doing any act required to be done ®^iJ^“/ny“ct 
to qualify him to vote, or from voting at any election in 
any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, town- to vote, 
ship, school-district, municipality, or other territorial sub¬ 
division, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars, 
or be imprisoned not less than one month nor more than 
one year, or be punished by both such fine and imprison¬ 
ment. 


Sec. 5507. Every person who prevents, hinders, con¬ 
trols, or intimidates another from exercising, or in exer- Penalties for 
cising the right of suffrage, to whom that right is guar- S^Bder?ng a per^ 
anteed by the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution ciSug®“ght S* 
of the United States, by means of bribery, or threats b?Se?y threats 
depriving such person of employment or occupation, or&c. 
of ejecting such person from a rented house, lands or 
other property, or by threats of refusing to renew leases 
or contracts for labor, or by threats of violence to himself 
or family, shall be punished as provided in the preceding 
section. 

Sec. 5508. If two or more persons conspire to injure, 

ODpress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free preve. t a ctti- 

rt ? . ^ ^ . 1 i ^ zen from fully 

exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured exercising any 
to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, h^VrSionM 
or because of his having so exercised the same; or if two 
or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the 
premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his 
free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so 
secured, they shall be fined not more than five thousand 
dollars and imprisoned not more than ten years; and 
shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to any office, or 


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place of honor, profit or trust created by the Constitution 
or laws of the IJnited States. 

Sec. 5509. If in the act of violating any provision in 
either of the two preceding sections any other felony or 
misdemeanor be committed, the offender shall be pun¬ 
ished for the same with such punishment as is attached 
to such felony or misdemeanor by the laws of the State 
in which the offence is committed. 

Sec. 5510. Every person who, under color of any law 
cSize?ofequa^i Statute, Ordinance, regulation, or custom, subjects, or 
der^h^iaws!^' causcs to be Subjected, any inhabitant of any State or 
Territory to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or 
immunities, secured or protected by tlie Constitution and 
laws of the United States, or to different punishments, 
pains, or penalties, on account of such inhabitant being 
an alien, or by reason of his color or race, than are pre¬ 
scribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be punished 
by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by 
imprisonment not more than one year, or by both. 

Penalties for Sec. 5511. If, at any election for Representative or 
JoSn|,faise Delegate in Congress, any person knowingly personates 
Noting twiS, and votes, or attempts to vote in the name of any other 

living, dead, or fictitious; or votes more 
illegal vote, than once at the same election for any candidate for the 
same office ; or votes at a place where he may not be 
lawfully entitled to vote; or votes without having a law¬ 
ful right to vote; or does any unlawful act to secure an 
opportunity to vote for himself, or any other person ; or 
by force, threat, intimidation, bribery, reward, or offer 
thereof, unlawfully prevents any qualified voter of any 
State, or of any Territory, from freely exercising the 
right of suffrage, or by any such means induces any voter 
to refuse to exercise such right, or compels, or induces, 
by any such means, any officer of an election in any such 
State or Territory to receive a vote from a person not 
legally qualified or entitled to vote ; or interferes in any 
manner with any officer of such election in the discharge 
of his duties; or by any of such means, or other unlaw¬ 
ful means, induces any officer of an election, or officer 
whose duty it is to ascertain, announce, or declare the 
result of any such election, or give or make any certifi¬ 
cate, document, or evidence in relation thereto, to violate 
or refuse to comply with his duty or any law regulatincr 
the same ; or knowingly receives the vote of any person 
not entitled to vote, or refuses to receive the vote of any 
person entitled to vote, or aids, counsels, procures, or 


Punishment in 
case any other 
felony or mis¬ 
demeanor is 
committed. 


Penalties for 


IT 


advises any sucli voter, person, or officer to do any act 
hereby made a crime, or omit to do any duty tlie omis¬ 
sion of which is hereby made a crime, or attempt to do 
so, he shall be punished by a fine of not more tlian five 
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not more than three 
years, or by both, and shall pay the costs of the prose¬ 
cution. 

Sec. 5512. If, at any registration of voters for an 
tion for Kepresentative or Delegate in the Congress 
the United States, any person knowingly personates and ofvoTe?e 
registers, or attempts to rei^ister, in the name of any 
other person, whether living, dead, or fictitious, 
or fraudulently registers, or fraudulently attempts to 
register, not having a lawful right so to do; or does 
any unlawful act to secure registration for himself 
or any other person; or by force, threat, menace, in¬ 
timidation, bribery, reward, or offer, or promise thereof, 
or other unlawful means, prevents or hinders any person 
having a lawful riglit to register from duly exercising 
such right; or compels or induces by any of such means, 
or other unlawful means, any officer of registration to 
admit to registration any person not legally entitled 
thereto, or interferes in any manner with any officer of 
registration in the discharge of his duties, or by any such 
means, or other unlawful means, induces any officer of 
registration to violate or refuse to comply with his duty 
or any law regulating the same; or if any such officer 
knowingly and wilfully registers as a voter any person 
not entitled to be registered, or refuses to so register any 
person entitled to he registered ; or if any such officer 
or other person who has any duty to perforin in relation 
to such registration or election, in ascertaining, announc- 
ing, or declaring the result thereof, or in giving or *^aking jei^singto^per- 
any certificate, document, or evidence in relation thereto, 
knowingly neglects or refuses to perform any duty 
required by law^, or violates any duty imposed by law, or 
does any act unauthorized by law relating to or affecting 
such registration or election, or the result thereof, or any 
certificate, document, or evidence in relation thereto, or 
if any person aids, counsels, procures, or advises any sucli any onetodo 
voter, person or officer to do any act hereby made a <-rime,Sra?rTme?^ 
or to omit any act the omission of which is hereby made a*«- 
crime, every such person shall be punishable as prescribed 
in the preceding section. 

Sec. 5513. Every registration made under the laws of 
any State or Territory, for any State or other election at trauon under 
which such Representative or Delegate in (-ongress maySoS® 


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be chosen, sliall he deemed to be a registration within the 
meaning of the preceding section, notwithstanding such reg¬ 
istration is also made tor the purposes of any State, territo¬ 
rial or niunici[)al election. 

Presumption as Sec. 5514 Whenever the laws of any State or Territory 
to Yoting, require that tlie name of a candidate or person to be voted 
tor as a Representative or Delegate iii Congress shall be 
printed, written or (contained on any ticket or ballot with 
the names of other candidates or persons to be voted for 
at the same elecTon as State, territorial, municij)al or 
local officers, it shall be deemed sufficient priina-facie 
evidence to convict any person charged with voting, or 
offering to vote, milawfully, under the provisions of this 
chapter, to prove that the person so charged cast or offered 
to cast such a ticket or ballot wliereon the name of such 
Representative or Delegate might by law be printed, writ¬ 
ten, or contained, or that the person so charged committed 
any of tlie offences denounced in this chapter with reference 
to such ticket or ballot.’ 

Punishment of ^EC. 5515. Every officer of an election at which any 
Representative or Delegate in Congress is voted for, 
r. fueetoiut y whether such officer of election be appointed or created 
duSr&c^^^ by or under any law or authority of the United States, or 
by or under any State, territorial, district, or municipal 
law or authority, who neglects or refuses to perform any 
duty in regard to such election required of him by any 
law of the United States, or of any State or Territory 
thereof; or who violates any duty so imposed ; or who 
knowingly does any acts thereby unauthorized, with 
intent to affect any such election, or the result thereof; 
or who fi;audulently makes any false certificate ot the 
result of such election in regard to such Representative 
or Delegate; or who withholds, conceals, or destroys any 
certificare of record so required by law respecting the 
election of any such Re|)resentative or Delegate; or who 
neglects or refuses to make and return such certificate as 
required by law; or who aids, counsels, procures, or 
advises any voter, person, or officer to do any act by this 
or any of the preceding sections made a crime, or to 
omit to do any duty the omission of which is by this or 
any of such sections made a crime, or attempts to do so^ 
shall be punished as prescribed in section fifty-five hun¬ 
dred and ten. 

Penalty for Sec. 5516. Every person who wilfully obstructs, hin- 
cutlfn o“^ eT‘ <3ers, or ])revents any officer or other person charged with 
tain process, exccutioii of any warrant or process issued under the 


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provisions of sections nineteen hundred and eiglitv-fonr and 
nineteen hnndred and eightv-tive, Title “Civil Rights,” or 
any person lawfully assisting him, from ari’esting any person 
for whose appi*ehension smdi warrant or process may have 
been issued; or resc.ues, or attempts to rescue, such |‘ei’son 
fi’om the custodv of the <>ffi<*er or other person lawfullv as p^-hois trom 

. . 1 •' I 1 1 • 1" • t^ustody. 

sistmg wlien so arrested, ]>ursuant to tlie authority Iierem 
given ; or aids, abets, or assists any ])crson so arrested, di¬ 
rectly or indii-ectly, to es(*.a])e from the custody of the olHcer 
or otlier ])erson legally autlmrizi'd to arrest the party; <>r 
harbors oi’ conceals any person for whose arrest a warrant or or‘-•ouc. aiiug 

, , . , 1 • T 1 peroo) 8 for 

process lias been issued, so as to jireveiit Ins discovei-y and whon. wairant 

arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant 

has been issued for the apprehension of such person, shall, 

for any of such offences, be subject to a tine of not more 

than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not more than 

six months, or both. 

Sec. 5517. Every marshal and deputy marshal who Penalty for 
refuses to receive any warrant or other process when ten-rrf^8ing"to^re.^ 
dered to him, issued in jmrsuance of the ])rovisions of sec 
tion nineteen hundred and eighty-live. Title “ Civil Rights,” 
or refuses or neglects to use all proper means diligently 
to execute the same, shall be liable to a fine in the sum of 
one thousand dollars, for the benefit of the party aggrieved 
therebv. 


Sec. 5518. If two or more persons in any State or Terri Penalty for 

. - I <♦ , conspiriug to 

tory conspire to prevent, hy force, intimidation, or threat preveut any 
any person from accepting or holding any t-ffic.e, trust, or uMtI.V’Latee 
place of confidence under the United States, or from dis 
charging any duties thereof; or to induce by like means 
any officer of the United States to leave any State, district, 
or })lace, where his duties as an officer are required to be 
performed, or to injure him in his person or property on 
account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or 
while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure 
his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede 
him in the discharge of his official duties; each of such per¬ 
sons shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hun¬ 
dred nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprison¬ 
ment, with or without hard labor, not less than six months 
nor more than six years, or b}^ both such fine and imprison¬ 
ment. 


Ql> PertaHy for 
c nsp^Ting to 


Sp:c. 5519. If two or more persons in any State nsp r.n-r to 
Territory conspire, or go in disguise on the highway or deprive citizens 
on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, under'tliVifws* 


20 


either directly or indirectly, any person or class of per¬ 
sons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal 
privileges and iniiiiunir.ies under the laws ; or for the 
purpose of preventing or liindering the constituted 
autliorities of any State or Territory from giving or 
securing to all persons within such State or Territory 
tlie equal protection of the laws ; each of such persons 
shall be punislied by a tine of not less than five hundred 
nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment, 
with or without liard labor, not less than six months 
nor more than six years, or by both such fine and imprison¬ 
ment. 

two or more persons in any State or 
prevent citizens Territory coiispire to prevent by force, intimidation 
£p“omng^any or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, 
PreeidenTor fi*om giving his support or advocacy, in a legal manner, 
or'M.^mbe^oV’ toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qual- 
congress. ilied pcrsoii as an elector for President or Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, or as a member of the Congress of the United 
States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on 
account of such support or advocacy; each of such per¬ 
sons shall be punished by a fine of not less than five 
hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or by 
imprisonment, with or without hard labor, not less than 
six months nor more than six years, or by botli such fine 
and imprisonment. 

ne”Sto?^re person be appointed a supervisor of 

fueai on part of election 01* a Special deputy marshal under the provisions 
deput^mar^-haiB of Title “ The Elective FRANCHISE,” and lias taken the 
their^dutTes^^^*^ office as such Supervisor of election or such 

special deputy marshal, and thereafter neglects or refuses, 
without good and lawful excuse, to perform and discharge 
fully the duties, obligations, and requirements of such 
otiice until the expiration of the term for which he was ap¬ 
pointed, he shall not only be subject to removal from office, 
with loss of all pay or emoluments, but shall be punished 
by imprisonment for not less than six montlis nor more 
than one year, or by a fine of not less than two hundred 
dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, 
or by both fine and imprisonment, and shall pay the costs 
of prosecution. 

Sec. 5522. Every person, whether with or without any 
Sructed.^hi.'- fi^^fJiority, power, or process, or pretended authority, power, 
^Jr^dwfthby' or process, of any State, Territory, or municipality, who 
any btate au- obstructs, liinders, assaults, or by bribery, solicitation, or 
iSdividill^7c. otherwise, interferes with or prevents the supervisors of 


21 


election, or either of them, or the marshal or his general or 
special deputies, or either of them, in the performance of 
any duty required of them, or either of them, or which 
he or they, or either of tliem, may be authorized to per¬ 
form by any law of the United States, in the execution 
of process or otherwise, or who by any of the means be- . 

fore mentioned hinders or prevents tlie free attendance and 
presence at such places of registration or at such polls of 
election, or full and free access and egress to and from any 
such place of registration or poll of election, or in going to 
and from any such place of registration or poll of election, 
or to and from any room, where any such registration or 
elee-tion or canvass of votes, or of making any returns or 
certificates thereof, may be liad, or who molests, inter-NormoiPRted, 
teres with, removes or elects from any such idace ot re^ris- ejected from 

... 11 ei'’’ ^ ° ^ am place of re- 

tration or poll ot election, or ot canvassing votes cast ^istry orpoumg 

thereat, or of making returns or certificates thereof, any 

supervisor of election, the marshal or his general or special 

deputies, or either of them ; or who threatens, or attempts, 

or ofiers so to do, or refuses, or neglects to aid and assist 

any supervisor of election, or the marshal or his general 

or special deputies, or either of them, in the performance 

of his or their duties, when required by him or them, or 

either of them, to give such aid and assistance, shall be 

liable to instant arrest without process, and shall be 

punished by imprisonment not more than two years, 

by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars, or by for. 

both such fine and imprisonment, and shall pay the co&ts 

of the prosecution. 


Seo. 5523. Every person who, during the progress of any pacing veriUca. 
verification of any list of the persons who may have 
istered or voted, which is had or made under any of the fweraiilawful 
provisions of Title “The Elective Franchise,” refusesdem^nw!* 
to answer, or refrains from answering, or, answering, 
knowingly gives false information in respect to any inquiry 
lawfully made, shall be punishable by imprisonment for 
not more than thirty days, or by a fine of not more than 
one hundred dollars, or by both, and shall pay the costs 
of the prosecution. 


Sec. 5528. Every ofticer of the Army or Navy, or other 
person in the civil, military, or naval service of the troops at 

r . ^ . - , Ht to electioaij, 

United States, who orders, brings, keeps, or has undersa^etorepei 
his authority or control, any troops or armed men at any omo 
place where a general or s]>ecial election is held in any^®^- 
State, unless such force be necessary to rejiel armed 
enemies of the United States or to keep the peace at the 
polis, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, 


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and suffer imprisonment at hard labor 
months nor more than five years. 


not less than" three 


Pen<«i*y for Evcrj offiocr or other person in the military 

mi itaryornavai or iiaval sei’vice wlio, hv forcc, threat, intimidation, order, 
ing t-. prevent aoMceor Otherwise, prevents, or attempts to prevent, any 
free^’yexerdaing Voter of any State from freely exercising the right 

the rig it of of suffrage at any general or Special election in such State, 
shall he fined not more than five thousand dollars, and im¬ 
prisoned at hard labor not more than five years. 


suffrage. 


Seo. 5530. Every officer of the Army or Navy who pre- 
militaryornavai scribes or fixes, or attempts to prescrilie or fix, whetlier 
proclamation, order, or otherwise, the qualifications of 
election in any State, shall be punished as 
provided in the preceding section. 


pena’tyfor Every officer or Other person in the military 

military or naval or Tuival Service, who by force, threat, intimidation, order, 
fng^'wuh stat?^’or otherwise, compels, or atteinjits to compel, any offi(;er 
•lections. holding an election in any State to receive a vote from a 

who imposes or at- 


Additional pen¬ 
ally lor viola¬ 
tion of provi¬ 
sions of lour 
preceding sec¬ 
tions. 


Bight of mili¬ 
tary or naval 
officers to vote 
where la»\fully 
eiitified to, pre¬ 
served. 


person not legally qnalihed to vote, or wlio imposes or 
tenijits to impose, any regulations foi: conducting any gen¬ 
eral or special election in a State different from those pre- 
scrilied by law, or who interferes in any manner with any 
officer of an election in the discharge of his duty, shall be 
punished as provided in section fifty-five hundred and 
twenty-nine. 

Sec. 5532. Every person convicted of any of the ofiences 
specified in the four preceding sections, shall, in addition to 
the pnnisbmeiits therein severally prescribed, be disqualified 
from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the 
United States ; but nothing in those sections shall be con¬ 
strued to prevent any officer, soldier, sailor, or marine from 
exercising the right of suffrage in any election district to 
which be may belong, if otherwise qualified according to the 
laws of the State in winch he offers to vote. 


rMI3EX. 


CITIZENSHIP. 

PAGE SEC. 


Forfeiture of rights of, by desertion. 1 1996 

Loss of right to become a citizen. 1 1996 

Kemoval of disabilities incurred on account of loss of citizenship.. 1 1996 


CHIEF SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS. 


Appointment of.. 

Must be a U. S. C. C. Commissioner. 

Term of office . 

Duties of. 

Fees of. 

May require Supervisors of Election to furnish list of voters 


9 

9 

9 

7 

9 

10 

9 


2026 

2025 

2025 
2020 

2026 
2031 
2026 


COURTS. 


When to be open for the appointment of Supervisors of Election. . 4 

Proceedings when opened. 4 

How long to be kept open. 5 

Power of Judge of, in vacation or at chambers. 5 

District Judge may be assigned to act in place of Circuit Judge. . . 5 


Jurisdiction 


2011 

2012 

2013 

2013 

2014 

2015 
2010 
202.3 


COMMISSIONERS OF U. S. COURTS. 


Duties of, in cases of arrest. 8 2023 

To forward complaints to Chief Supervisor of Elections. 10 2027 


CRIMES AGAINST THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE AND CIVIL 
RIGHTS OF CITIZENS, AND PENALTIES THEREFOR. 


Hindering a citizen from qualifying as a voter. 15 5506 

Hindering exercise of right of suffrage . 15 5507 

Conspiring to prevent a citizen from exercising rights secured by 

National laws. 15 5508 

Commission of any other felony, Ac. 16 5509 

Depriving citizens of equal protection. 16 5510 

Wrongful voting, false personation, voting twice, receiving illegal 

votes, Ac. 16 5511 

Unlawful acts concerning registration. 17 5512 

Neglecting or reiusing to perform any duty. 17 5512 

Advising any one to commit crime .. 17 5512 

Officers who neglect to perform their duty. 18 5515 

Hindering execution of process. 18 5516 

Rescuing persons from custody. 19 5516 




























INDEX. 


.A.WV/X W v V .^w. .. 

Conspiring to prevent officer from discharging his duty 
Conspiring to deprive citizens of equal rights. 


Refusing to answer questions respecting 
Using troops at State elections, except, & 


DESERTION. 

Wao to be deemed deserters. 

Who not to be deemed deserters. 


registry 


FORGERIES, FRAUDS, &c. 


Penalties for forgeries, frauds, &c. 


MARSHALS. 


Marshals’ duties 


MARSHALS (DEPUTY). 


Their punishment in certain casas. 


MILITARY AND NAVAL OFFICERS. 


Penaltie-s for violating these sections. 


PAGE 

8K(!. 

.... 19 

5517 

.... 19 

5518 

.... 19 

5519 

.. . . 20 

5520 

.... 21 

5523 

.... 21 

5528 

.... 22 

5532 

. .. 1 

1996 

.... 1 

1997 

.... 1 

1998 

.... 13 

5424 

.... 13 

5424 

.... 13 

5424 

.... 13 

5424 

.... 14 

5428 


j 5424 

1 io 

j 5426 

• "1 

( 5426 

1 14 - 

5427 

- 

(5428 

.... 15 

5506 

.... 8 

2021 


2022 

9 

2024 

( 10 

2027 

... . 8 

2021 

.... 8 

2021 

.... 8 

2022 

.... 8 

2022 


2022 

.... 8 

2023 

day 8 

2022 

. . .. 9 

2024 

. ... 20 

5522 

.... 21 

5522 

.... 11 

2031 

)uty 


.... 10 

2030 

..,. 20 

5221 

.. . . 2 

2002 

... 2 

2003 


2003 

f 21 

5528 

j ( 

5529 

•■) 22 \ 

5530 

[ 1 

5531 

. . 22 

5532 




































INDEX. 


NATURALIZATION. 


When deemed citizens for purpose of serving on board of American 

merchantmen.. 

To be ejititled to protection after tiling declaration. 

REGLSTRATION. 

What to be deemed registration. 


SUPERYLSORS OF ELECTION, 


v^nalifications of 


Their duties. 


Not to be interfered with bj^ State authority, nor removed from 
place of registry or polling. 

VOTERS VOTING. 


Remedy for refusal to allow performance of prerequisite to voting. 
When offer to perform prerequisite to be deemed performance of it 


PAgE 

SKO. 

11 

2166 

11 

2167 

12 

2169 

12 

2170 

12 

2172 

12 

2172 

12 

2174 

12 

2174 

13 

2174 

17 

5513 

4 

2012 

4 

2012 

10 

2028 

5 

2016 

(2017 

6 . 

2018 

(2019 

11 

2031 

10 

2029 

20 

5522 

2 

2004 

6 

2017 

2 

2005 

2 

2005 

3 

2008 

2 

2006 

3 

2007 

3 

2009 

18 

5514 

22 

5532 

3 

2010 




























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CHAPTER 675. 

AN ACT IN RELATION TO ELECTIONS IN THE CITY AND COUNTY 
OF New York, and to rrovide for ascertaining, by prop¬ 
er PliOOFS, THE citizen WHO SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE 
RIGHT OF SUFFERAGE THKRKVT. 

Passed May 14tli, 1872 ; tliree-fiftlis being present. 


The People of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 


fe ECT 10x1. [A men ded h y char). 5 03 <9/ the Lmos ^ / 1 H ^ 5 , 

7 77 1 T T n m 1 All officers elec. 

^ as to read as foUoirs ; llorealter all otliccrs to be tedmNovcmbe# 

except. 

elected by the jieople, in tbc cit}" and connt}^ of New 
York, sliall be chosen at the general election held on 
the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November 
in each year, except in case where special or other elec¬ 
tions may be authorized by law. 

ddie clerk of the Common Council of the cit}^ of New 
York shall, on the first Monday of October in each 3’ear^ 
give notice b}-publication in not exceeding fifteen news¬ 
papers of large circulation, published in said cit}", speci¬ 
fying all the mnnici[)al officers (including ward and dis¬ 
trict officers) to be chosen at the general election in No¬ 


vember following—comprising all the city officers voted 
for b}" the electors ol the city at large—as well as all 
other officers elected by wards or districts in said city, 
and it shall not be necessary for the Sccr(‘tary of State to 
include in the general election notice fd the sherilfof the 
county of New York, and city or ward officers of the city 
of New York, nor shall any other notice of the election 
of such city and ward officers be re(]nired, except the 
notice published by the clerk of the Common Council of 
the city of Ntiw York, hereinbefore specified. 


Notn-o Jt 
tirn. IL pub¬ 
lished by clerk 
ol the Common 
Council only. 


Section 2. The days upon which the genernl or local 
elccti(ms shall hereafter be held in the city and county of 
New York, shall, for all ptirposes whatever, as regards 
the presenting for payment or acceptance, and of the legaihoi.day, 
protesting and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of 
exchaiP’’e, bank-checks, and promissorj’^ notes,,made alter 


2 


Ballot-boxes, 
how marked. 


^xes to be fur¬ 
nished. 


Ballot for pres- 
ident and vice- 
president. 

Form oC 

How folded and 
indorsed. 


Names of city 
and county 
ofTicers except, 
etc , to be on one 
ballot, to desig- 
na e name and 
office. 


How folded. 
How indorsed. 


Separate ballots 
for rep in 
cotigress. 

To designate 
name, office, 
and district. 

How folded. 

How indorsed. 


the passage of this act, be treated and considered as is 
the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday. 

Section 3. \Amen(l€d hy chap, 823 of the Laws of 1873, 
80 as to read as follows At elections hereafter to be 
held in tlie city and count}" of New York, the boxes to be 
used in receiving the ballots thereat shall be marked and 
numbered successively as follows : Number one, “ Presi¬ 
dent;” number two, “General;” number three, “Con¬ 
gress;” number four, “Senator;” number five, “Assem¬ 
bly;” number six, “City;” number seven, “Justices.” 
And at every election hereafter to be held in said city 
and county such number of boxes, marked as aforesaid, 
shall be furnished, as may be required by law, to receive 
the ballots to be used at such election. 

Section 4. [A mended hy chap. 823 c/' the Laws c/* 1873, 
so as to read as follows r\ The ballot for electors of Pre¬ 
sident and Vice-President shall be the same as now pre¬ 
scribed by law, and, when folded, shall be endorsed or 
show on the outside the words “President, number one,” 
and be deposited in box number one. All other officers 
in whose election all the voters of said city and county 
alike participate, except those herein designated to be 
voted for on separate ballots, shall lie voted foi* upon one 
ballot, which, upon the face thereof, shall contain a desig¬ 
nation of the ofiices, and the name or names of the person 
or persons to be voted for, or such of them as any voter 
ina} desire to vote for, and which, when folded, shall be 
endorsed, or show upon the outside thereof, the words 
“ General, number two,” and bed(‘posited in box number 
two. The name of the person designated for representa¬ 
tive in Congress shall be on a separate ballot, which, u[)on 
the face thereof, shall contain a designation of the otlice 
and ihedistrict for which theofGcer is to be elected, and 
which, when folded, shall be endorsed, or show upon the 
out>ide thereof, the words “ Congress, number three,” and 
be deposited in box number three. The name of the per¬ 
son designated for Senator shall be upon a separate ballot. 


3 


which, on the face tliereof, shall contain a designation of 
the oflice of the district for which the officer is to be elect¬ 
ed, and which, when folded, shall be endorsed, or show 
upon the outside thereof, the words “Senator, number 
four,” and to be deposited in box number four. The name 
of the person designated for Member of Assemblj- shall 
be on a separate ballot, which,upon the fice thereof, shall 
contain a designation of the office and the district for which 
the officer is to be elected, and which, when folded, shall 
be endorsed, or show upon the outside thereof, the words 
“Assembly, number live,” and to be deposited in box 
number live. The names of the persons designated for 
Aldermen to be elected by senate districts shall be on a 
separate ballot, which, upon the face thereof, shall con¬ 
tain a designation of the office and the senate district for 
which the officers are to be elected, and which, when 
folded, shall be endorsed, or show on the outside thereof, 
the words “ City, number six,” and to be deposited in box 
number six. The names of the persons designated for 
Justice of the District Court shall be upon one ballot, 
which ballot, upon the face thereof, shall contain a desig¬ 
nation of the office and the district for which the officers 
are to be elected, and the name or names of the person or 
persons to be voted for, or such of them as any voter ma}' 
desire to vote for, and which, when folded, shall be en¬ 
dorsed, or show upon the outside thereof, the words 
“Justices, number seven,” and to be deposited in box 
number seven. 


Separate ballot 
for senator. 

To designate 
name, o(Bce, and 
district. 

How folded. 
How indorsed. 

Where deposited 


Separate ballot, 
for member of 
A.ssembly. 

To designate 
name, office and 
district. 

How folded. 
How indorsed. 

Where deposited 


Ballot for aider- 
men elected by 
.senate districts. 


How folded. 
How indorsed. 


Where deposited 


One ballot for 
Justice of dis¬ 
trict court. 

To designate 
names, office, 
and district. 


How folded. 
How indorsed. 


Where deposited 


Section 5. At all elections hereafter held in the city 
and county of New York, the polls shall be open at six 
o’clock in the morning, and close at four o’clock in the 
afternoon. 

Section 6. At every election hereafter held in the Elections and 
city and county of New York, the election and canvass 
of the votes cast thereat shall be in all respects con- ^erai S‘eiion 
ducted in conformity to the provisions of the general heTlirpr'oviSd. 


4 


Board of police 
to establish 
bureau of elec¬ 
tions. 


And appoint a 
chief of the 
bureau o elec¬ 
tions. 

Term of office 
three years. 
Salary to be 
fixed by the 
board, not ex¬ 
ceeding $5,000. 
Removable by 
Board for cause. 


Board of police 
to prepare book 
for registration 
of names and 
acts. 


To be called 
Registers. 


To contain the 
name of each 
street. No. of 
each dwelling. 


Names of all 
male persons in 
each dwelling 

Who .shall apply 
for registration. 
Registers, how 
ruled, and be of 
size to contain 
700 names. 


What to contain. 
When used. 


election laws of this State, except as in this act other¬ 
wise provided. 

Section 7. It is hereby made the duty of “ tlie board 
of police’’ of the cit}^ of New York, on or before the 
first day of August, eighteen hundred and sevenly-two, 
to establish a bureau in the office of the department of 
police, in the city and county of New York, to be known 
and designated as the bureau of elections. The affairs 
of said bureau shall, under and subject to such rules, 
regulations and orders as may from time to time be 
made and adopted by said board of police, be managed 
conducted and carried on by a suitable and proper per¬ 
son, to be chosen and selected b}^ said board, who sliall 
be known as the chief of the bureau of elections, shall 
hold office for the period of three years, and whose 
salary shall be fixed and paid by said board, at such 
sum as they shall deem proper, not exceeding five 
thousand dollars, and shall be removable by the board 
of police for cause. 

Section 8. It shall also be the duty of the “board of 
police” to at once cause to be prepared, books for the 
registration of names and facts required b}" this act. 
Said books to be known by the general name of regis¬ 
ters, and to be so arranged as to admit of the entering, 
under the name of each street or avenue in each election 
district, and the number of each dwelling in any such 
street or avenue, if there be a number thereto, and if 
there be no number, under such other definite descrip¬ 
tion of the location of the dwelling-place as shall enable 
it to be readily ascertained, found and located, of the 
names of all male persons resident in each dwelling in 
each of said districts who shall apply for registration. 
Said register shall be ruled in parallel columns, in which, 
opposite to end against the name of every applicant, 
shall be entered the words and figures hereinafter pro¬ 
vided in this act, and shall be of such size as to contain 
not less than seven hundred names, and so prepared as 
that they may be used at each election in the city and 
county of New York, until such time as is in this act 
provided for the succeeding general registration, and 
shall on the inside, be in appearance and form as fol¬ 
lows, to wit : 


REGISTER OF VOTERS. 



[These spaces to be filled up after the manner of the above.] 





























































6 


Board of police 
to divide assem¬ 
bly districts 
Into election 
districts. 


Each district to 
contain 2S0 
voters. 


Such districts 
not to be 
changed except 
etc., etc. 


When to re-dis¬ 
trict on same 
basis. 


Board of police 
to divide 23d and 
S4th Wards into 
election districts. 


Section 9. {^Ammded by chap. 621 of the laws of 1874, 
so as to read as follows:'] It shall be the duty of the 
board of police on or before the lirteenlh da}^ of August, 
in the year one thousand and eight hundred and seventy- 
four, to divide the seventeenth and twentieth assembly 
districts in the city and countj^ of New York, into elec¬ 
tion districts, so as each election district shall contain 
as near as practicable two hundred and fifty voters, the 
registration for the year eighteen hundred and seventy- 
two being taken as the basis on which such division 
shall be made. As far as possible the board of police 
shall preserve, in the new districts, the numerical num¬ 
bers existing in the present election districts, in each of 
said Assembly districts ; and no election district shall 
be in part within two congressional districts. And it 
shall not be lawful for the said board prior to or on the 
fifteenth day of August, to alter or change either the 
number or boundaries of any election district, in any 
other Assembly district, in the city and county of New 
York, or to thereafter alter or change either the num¬ 
ber or boundaries of any election district, save in such 
years as by law the said city and county is redistricted 
by assembl}' districts, and in such years as the usual 
and customary enumeration of citizens in the city and 
county of New York is had and taken, when as early as 
the first day of September, in any such year, a general 
redistricting of the said city and county of New York, 
upon the same numerical basis as to voters as in this 
section above provided shall be made by assemblj’^ dis¬ 
tricts, upon the basis of the registration of voters for 
that 3 ^ear last preceding the time of such redistricting, 
in which members of congress shall have been chosen 
On or before the fifteenth da}^ of August, in the year 
one thousand and eight hundred and seventy-four, the 
said board of police shall also divide the twenty-third 
and twentj'-fourth wards of said city, fornied out of the 
territory lately annexed to the city of New York, into 
election districts, so that each of such districts shall con¬ 
tain as near as practicable two hundred and fifty voters, 
the number of votes cast in the several election districts 
in the said territory at the general election held for the 
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two 


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being taken as the basis on which such division shall be 
made ; but at any subsequent redistricting of said terri¬ 
tory, all the provisions of this act for the city and 
county of New York, shall be observed and performed 
in relation thereto ; provided, however, that the said 
board of police may, on or before the fifteenth day of 
August in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
seventy-four, and in each second year thereafter divide 
such election districts, and such only as by the regis¬ 
tration of voters of the two preceding years, shall be 
found to have had an average registration of more than 
four hundred voters. But in any such division of any 
such district one portion of the district shall retain the 
original numerical designation, and the other portion 
shall take the number immediately following the high¬ 
est numbered district in the Assembly district of which 
it forms a part. 

Section 10. It shall be the duty of the chief of the 

J Chief of Bureau 

bureau of elections to receive, file and preserve in his JLp'cSS 

office all resolutions, orders, rules and regulations of 

said board of police, pertaining to or in anywise 

arfecting the conduct of the affairs of his bureau; to 

prepare and furnish all necessary registers, books, 

mops, forms, oaths, certificates, blanks and instructions stationary, 

for the use of the inspectors of election and the board 

of county canvassers ; to provide for the furnishing of 

such officers therewith and with all necessary supplies ; 

to have and retain the custody of all registers and 

copies thereof provided for in this act, all oaths of 

office and of removal, and all records, papers and cer- ?ecoTdl^paperi! 

tificates 'of every kind and nature pertaining to the 

affairs of his bureau, the conduct of any registration 

of electors, revision thereof, or of any election ; and to 

have charge of the fitting up of all polling places. The SSt^fup^of 

said chief shall, for any revision of any general regis- 

’ r* 1 • • to Issue Regis¬ 

tration, issue to each of the inspectors of election, in 


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each election district in the city and county of New 
York, one of the registers of said district in use 
therein at the preceding election and returned to and 
filed by him in his office. 


To appoint a 
Cbiei Clerk. 


Salary not to 
exceed $ 2,000. 


Board to furnlah 
other clerical 
force from 
among patrol¬ 
men. 


Section 11. The chief of. the bureau of elections 
shall have the right, subject to the approval of the 
board of police, to appoint a chief clerk, who 
shall receive a salary not exceeding $2,000 per 
annum. Such other clerical assistance as, in the judg¬ 
ment of said board, shall be necessary and proper for 
the faithful performance b}^ the bureau of elections of 
the duties in this act imposed, shall be furnished by 
said board by detail from among the patrolmen under 
its command. 


rormerburean SECTION 12. Oil tlic Organization of the bureau of 
Sluve?toThi? elections, as hereinbefore provided, all documents, 

Bureau all docu- 

Sipers&?^®’ I'cturns, maps, books, accounts, forms, papers, 
and records of every description filed in, or be¬ 
longing to the bureau of elections heretofore 
established, shall be transferred to the custody 
of the bureau in this act contemplated, and filed 
therein; and on such organization the said bureau 
of elections, heretofore established by authority of 
abolished. section seventeen of the act, chajiter one hundred 
and thirty-eight of the laws of 1870, entitled an “An 
Act in relation to Elections in the City and County of 
New York,” and the act or acts amendatory thereof, 
shall be and the same hereby is abolished. 

Section 13. AW inspectors of election and poll 
poiifKaS- clerks in the city and county of New York shall 
moved by the’ hereafter be selected and appointed by the’ board 
of police, who shall also have power to make all 
nccessar}^ removals and transfers, and fill all vacan¬ 
cies which may, from any cause, arise. It shall be 
Appointments the duty of the said board of police, in the months 
Ai^’jjstandsep- of August and September, in the year one thousand 


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eight hundred and seventy-two, and annually in 

T -I Four Inspectors 

the months oi August and September in each sue- 
ceeding year for each election district, in said city ferent'ponS 
and county, to select to serve as inspectors of associates, 
election, four persons (two of whom, on State issues, 
shall be of different political faith and opinions from 
their associates, and those appointed to represent the 
party in political minority on State issues in the said 
city and county, to be named solely by such commis- tToJ 
sioner, or such ot the commissioners of police in said inspectors for 

. . each district. 

board as are the representatives of such political min¬ 
ority), who shall be citizens of the United States and of ?equSfor“® 
the State of New York, of good character, and able to 
read, write and speak the English language under- 
standingly, qualified voters in said city and county, 
and not candidates for any office to be voted for by 
the electors of the district for which they shall be 
selected: but no person shall be required to be a resi- Need not be 
dent or voter in the election district for which he shall S dt®£icTki° 

which he serves. 

be appointed an inspector. The persons so selected 
shall be notified, examined as to their qualifications, 
and, if approved, shall each take and subscribe before 
the chief of the bureau of elections or the chief clerk 
thereof, within twenty days from the date of notice of 
appointment, the following oath of office: oathofomce. 


1 residing at No. 

in the city of 

New York, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Consti¬ 
tution of the United States and of the State of New York; and that I 
will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Inspector of Elec¬ 
tions for the . Election District 

of the Assembly District of the City of New York ac¬ 

cording to the best of my ability; and that I am a citizen of the 
United States and of the State of New York, a qualified voter in 
the city and county of New York and not a candidate for any office 
to be voted for by the electors of the district for which I am appointed 
an Inspector.* 


'Whoever shall be nominated, approved and Certificate ot 

appoiutmani 

^worn into office as an inspector of election shall 


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Form of. recGive a certificate of appointment from the board 
of police, said certificate to be in such form as shall be 
prescribed by the said board, and to specify the assem¬ 
bly and election districts in and for which the person to 
whom the same is issued is appointed to serve, and the 
date of'expiration of his term of office. The inspectors 

Term of oflace. ^ ^ 

of election, appointed under the provisions of this act, 
shall hold office for one year, unless sooner removed 
for want of the requisite qualifications, or for cause, in 

Manner of pro- ^ ’ 

Jlm^isiSom either of Avhich case such removal, unless made while 
the inspector is actually on duty on a day of registra¬ 
tion, revision of registration or election, and for im¬ 
proper conduct as an election officer, shall only be 
made after notice, in writing, to the officer sought to 
be removed, which notice 'shall set forth clearly and 
distinctly the reasons for his removal. Provided^ 
Inspectors ap- That any inspector of election who shall at any 
vacanaesto^ tiiuG be appointed to fill a vacancy, which fact shall 
be stated in his certificate of appointment, shall hold 
office only during the unexpired term of his prede¬ 
cessor, and that no inspector of election or poll clerk 
No Inspector or ^hall be transferred from one election district to 
bransferred another after he has entered upon the performance of 

after entering . . . 

upon Ms duties. hlS dutlGS. 


Applicant for 

registration 
may be chal¬ 
lenged. 


By whom. 


In such case 
oath to be ad¬ 
ministered. 


Section 14. Any person applying to register or 
offering to vote, or who is registered, may, on any 
day of any general registration, revision of registra¬ 
tion or of election, be challenged by any qualified 
voter in tlie city and county of New York, and either 
of the inspectors of election, in any election district 
in said city and county, may, at any authorized meet¬ 
ing of the board, and one of them shall, administer 
to any person so challenged the oath or oaths provided 
by law to test the qualification of challenged electors ; 
and either of said inspectors may, at any such meet¬ 
ing, administer to any applicant for registration the 
oath or oaths provided in this act to be administered 


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to and taken by any sjicli applicant, and may also 
administer to any elector of the election district who 
may be offered as a witness to prove the qualification 
of an}^ person claiming the right to be registered, or 
to vote, the following oath : 

“ You do swear or affirm that you are an elector of this election district; 
that you will fully and truly answer all such questions aa shall be put to you 
touching the place of residence and other qualifications as an elector of the 
person (name to be given) now claiming the right to be registered as a voter 
in this district.” 

Section 16. Two persons of different political faith 
and opinions, on state issues, and possessing the other 
qualifications required by this act of inspectors of 
election, shall be, in all respects, similarly named, 
selected, notified, examined, appointed, commissioned 
and sworn as poll clerks in and for each election dis¬ 
trict in the city and county of New York, They shall 
hold office for the same period of time, and upon the 
same conditions as are above prescribed for inspectors 
of election, and shall receive a like certificate of ap¬ 
pointment. 

Section 16. Whenever, from any cause, there shall 
exist a vacancy in the office of inspector, of election 
or poll clerk, the person appointed to fill such vacancy 
shall be named by such commissioner, or such of the 
commissioners of said board of police, or his successor 
or their successors, as named the inspector or poll 
clerk in whose, place any such person is designated. 

Sec. 17. [Amended by chap. 823 of the Laws of 
1873, so as to read as follows .*] Inspectors of election 
and poll-clerks appointed in pursuance of the ])roviS' 
ions of this act, shall each be entitled to receive seven 
dollars and fifty cents per day.for each day’s service 
at any registration, revision of registration orelection, 
which compensation shall be paid on the certificate of 


Authority to 
administ jr oath 
to applicant. 

Also to wit¬ 
nesses. 


Form of oath to 
be administered 
to witnesses. 


Poll Clerhs. 
How appointed 
QualifleationB. 


Term of office 
of. 


Certificate of 
appointment ot 


Vacancies in 
office of In¬ 
spectors and 
Poll clerks, how 
filled. 


Inspectors and 
poll-clerks, com¬ 
pensation of. 


How certified 
and paid. 


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No payments to 
be made in cer- 
t 4 un cases. 


Acting as Inspec¬ 
tor or poll-clerk 
In certain cases 
a misdemeanor. 


Inspectors and 
poll-clerks ex¬ 
empted from 
militai'y and 
jury duty. 


Inspectors and 
poll clerks to be 
notified of ap¬ 
pointment. 


Must appear 
before Chief of 
Bureau of Elec¬ 
tions for exami¬ 
nation. 


If qualified 
bound to serre 
unless excused. 


Under penalty 
of $1011 for re¬ 
fusing. 


Failure to per¬ 
form duties 
deemed a r^ 
fusaL 


Unless pre¬ 
vented by sick¬ 
er other good 
cause. 


the chief of the bureau of elections as to the period of 
service ; but no payment shall be made to any person, 
as an inspector of election or poll-clerk who shall not 
have taken, subscribed and filed the oath or affirmation 
required herein, and who shall not, during the period 
of his service, have fully complied with all the re¬ 
quirements of law in anywise relating to his duties, and 
the acting of any such person, in either of said capa¬ 
cities, without having taken, subscribed and filed the 
said oath or affirmation, shall be deemed to be and 
punished as a misdemeanor. Inspectors of election and 
poll-clerks, during the time they shall hold such office, 
shall be exempt from the performance of military and 
jury duty. 

Section 18. Each and every person selected and noti¬ 
fied by the board of police, as its choice for the office 
of inspector of election, or of poll clerk, shall, on the 
ruceipt of notice thereof, appear, within ten days there¬ 
after, before the chief of the bureau of elections, for 
the purpose of examination, and, if found qualified, shall, 
unless excused by said board, by reason of ill health, or 
other good and sufficient cause, be bound to serve 
as such officer at every election for the term of one 
year from the date of his appointment, and in case of 
neglect or refusal to comply with the above require¬ 
ments, or to serve or act, shall be liable to a penalty 
of $10^, recoverable by the said board by civil action, 
in any court of record, in the name of the treasurer 
of the board, and for the use and benefit of the 
police fund. And a failure on the part of any 
such person to present himself for examination, 
or to comply with any of the requirements of this 
act preliminary to receiving his certificate of appoint¬ 
ment within the time prescribed, or to attend on the 
day of any registration or revision of registration or 
the day of any election during said term, unless pre¬ 
vented by sickness or other sufficient cause—the bur- 


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den of proof of which shall be upon the delinquent— 
shall be deemed a refusal within the meaning of this 
section. 

Section 19. The inspectors of election in each 
election district in the city and county of New 
York while discharging any of the duties imposed 
upon them by this act, shall have full authority 
to preserve order and enforce obedience to their 
lawful commands at and around the place of regis¬ 
tration, revision of registration or election, during 
the time of any registration, revision of registration, 
election or canvass, estimate, or return of votes; to 
keep the access to such place open and unobstructed ; 
to prevent and suppress riots, tumult, violence, disor¬ 
der and all other improper practices, tending to the 
intimidation or obstruction of voters, the disturbance 
or interruption of the work of registration, revision of 
registration, or voting, or the canvass, estimate, or return 
of votes, and to protect the voters, challengers and per¬ 
sons designated to watch the canvass of any ballots, 
from intimidation or violence, and the registers, poll 
books, boxes, and ballots from violence and fraud; and 
to appoint or deputize, if necessary, one or more 
electors to communicate their orders and directions, 
and to assist in the enforcement thereof. 

Section 20. Hereafter there shall, in the city and 
county of New York, be a general registration of 
the qualified voters resident in each election district 
in said city and county at the times hereinbelow 
provided, and then only : On Tuesday four weeks, 
the Wednesday of the third week, and the Friday 
and Saturday of the second week preceding the day of 
the November election in the year one thousand 
eight hundred and seventy-two, and thereafter 
on the same days of the week and at the same 
intervals of time preceding the day of the No- 


Inspectors to 
preserye ord». 
Sio, 


At and around 
places of 
registration and 
polls of elec¬ 
tion. 


To suppress 
riots, & 0 . 


Protect yoters, 
challengers, Ac. 


For these pur¬ 
poses to depu¬ 
tize one or 
more electors 
to assist. 


General regis¬ 
tration of yoters 
to be had. 


Whea 


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Ecrtsionof vember electioa in eacli year. For each and 
at^otKhan^ overj clection held in the city and county of New 
S®Novemb?^ Yoi'k, otliei* tliaii such as above designated in this 
section, there shall be a revision of the general regis¬ 
tration had, as provided in this act, which revision 
Onwbatdays, sliall be made on the Friday and Saturday of the 
second week preceding the day of each and every such 
election. 

Section 21. The inspectors of election appointed 

Inspectors of ^ . 

mee?f?r®piS pursuaiit to the provisions of this act shall, at the times 
?Sraar^ in this act designated for a general registration, meet 
in their respective election districts, at the places 
which, as provided in this act, shall be designated 
therein for such meetings, and at such times, in each 
election district, the said inspectors of election shall 
openly and publicly do and perform the following acts, 
Organize, how. ^ Tlicy sliall orgaiiizc, as a board, by selecting one 
of their number to act as chairman ; but in case of 2 
failure to so organize within fifteen minutes after the 
time fixed for the meeting, the chairman shall be 
Receive appii- sclcctcd by lot. II. Tlicy shall receive the appli¬ 
S'^Srsons cations for registration of such male residents of 
their several election districts as then are or on 
the day of election next following the day of making such 
applications would be entitled to vote therein, and who 
shall personally present themselves and such only. Ill, 
Sonfl-oms®®' shall remain in session; on each of said days, 

between the hours of eight o’clock in the morning and 
nine o’clock in the evening, and shall administer, to 

Shall administer ,, , 11 i ^ 

each ap- all porsous wlio personally apply to register, the 
following oath or affirmation, viz. : 

“ You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will fully and truly answer 
Form of oath, questions as shall be put to you touching your place of residence 

name, place of birth, your qualifications as an elector and your right as such 
to register and vote under the laws of this State.” 

Shall examine lY. They shall then examine each applicant as to 
each applicant. qualifications as an elector, and unless otherwise 

. provided herein, shall immediately, and in the pres- 


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ence of tlie applicant, enter in tlie registers, to be made 
and furnished as provided in this act, the statements and 
facts below set forth, in the manner following, viz.: First 
—Under the column “Residence,’’ the name and number 
of the street, avenue or other location of the dwelling, if 
there be a number, but if there shall not be a number 
such clear and definite description of the place of said 
dwelling as shall enable it to be readily ascer¬ 
tained, fixed and determined ; and if there shall be 
more than one house at the number given by the ap¬ 
plicant as his place of residence, in which house he 
resides, and if there be more than one family residing 
in said house, either the floor on which he resides— 
every floor below the level of the ground being desig¬ 
nated as the basement, the first floor on or above such 
level as the first floor, and each floor above that as the 
second or such other floor as it may be, or the number 
or location of the room or rooms occupied by the appli¬ 
cant, and whether front or rear. Second—Under the 
column “Address,” the name of the applicant, giving the 
surname and Christian name in full; but the names 
of all persons residing in the same dwelling to follow 
each other, and to be under the street and house num¬ 
ber, or other description, as provided, of the dwelling. 
Third—Under the column of “ Sworn” the word “yes” 
or “no,” as the fact shall be. Fourth—Under the 
column of “ Nativity,” the state, country, kingdom, 
empire, or dominion, as the fact shall, be stated by the 
applicant. Fifth—Under the column of “Color,” the 
words “ white” or “colored,” as the fact shall be. 
Sixth—Under the sub-divisions of the general column 
of “Term of Residence,” the periods by months, or 
years stated by the applicant in response to inquiries 
made for the purpose of ascertaining his qualification 
and filling such column. Seventh—Under the column 
of “Naturalized,” the words “yes/’ or “no,” or 
“ native,” as the fact shall be stated. Eighth—Under 
the column of “Date of Papers,” the date of natural- 


Shall enter In 
register state¬ 
ments and facta 
required as 
follows: 


Name and No. 
of street; 


If more than 
one family in a 
house the floor 
on which he re¬ 
sides, every such 
floor as is below 
ground being 
called base¬ 
ment; next 
above, Ist floor, 
&o.; or the 
number or lo¬ 
cation of 
room or rooms 
occupied. 


Name of appli¬ 
cant; 


Nativity of ap¬ 
plicant; 


His color; 


Terra of resi¬ 
dence; 


Whether natur 
alized or not; 


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If naturalized, 
date of papers; 


Court by which 
naturalized; 


Whether quali¬ 
fied or not. 


Qualification to 
be determined 
by concurrence 
of three inspec¬ 
tors. 


Minors coming 
of age before 
election day to 
be considered 
qualified. 


Date of applica¬ 
tion for registra¬ 
tion to be 
entered. 


When any re- 
yision of a gen¬ 
eral registration 
is to be had, in¬ 
spectors shall 
meet at the time 
required by law, 
and openly and 
publicly act as 
follows; 


Receive the ap¬ 
plications of 
such persons 
whose names 
are not borne 
on the registers 
as shall person¬ 
ally apply, and 


ization, if naturalized, as the same shall appear by the 
evidence of citizenship submitted or presented by the 
applicant in compliance with the requirements of this 
act. Ninth—Under the column of “ Court,” the desig¬ 
nation of the court in which, if naturalized, such 
naturalization was done, as the same shall appear by 
the evidence of citizenship submitted or presented by 
the applicant in compliance with the requirements of 
this act. Tenth—Under the column of “ Qualified 
Voter,” the word “yes” or “no,” as the fact shall ap¬ 
pear and be determined by at least three of the board 
of inspectors of election, it being, however, required of 
them to designate as a qualified voter any male person 
who, being otherwise qualified, shall not, at the time of 
making the application, be of age, provided the time 
when such applicant shall be of the age of twenty-one 
shall be subsequent to the date of his making ap¬ 
plication, and not later than the day of the election 
immediatel}^ following such time of applying. Eleventh 
—Under the column of “Date of Application,” the 
month, day and year when the applicant presented 
himself and was adjudged a qualified voter in the 
election district. 

Section 22. On the days and at the times in this 
act designated for any revision of any general regis¬ 
tration, the duly qualified inspectors of election shall 
meet in their respective election districts, at the places 
which, in accordance with the requirements of this act, 
shall have been provided for such meetings, and shall 
openly and publicly do and perform the following acts, 
viz: Each and every of the duties and requirements 
set forth in sub-divisions I. and III. of section twenty- 
one of this act. They shall, in each election district, 
receive the applications for registration of such male 
residents of the election district, whose names are not 
then borne upon the registers thereof, as qualified 
voters therein, as shall personally present themselves, 


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and who, on the day of election next ensuing, would 
be entitled to vote therein ; and as to all applications 
made to them shall proceed therewith in the manner 
provided in sub-division lY. of section twenty-one of 
this act: Provided, that if upon examination, as in 
this act provided for, of any applicant for registra¬ 
tion, it shall appear that he has, since the last day of 
any general registration of voters or revision thereof, 
in the said city and county of New York, moved into 
or become a resident of said election district, the said 
inspectors shall inquire from where such applicant re¬ 
moved or came from ; and if it shall appear that such 
removal was from a place within the said city and 
county, they shall inquire if, in the election district in 
which he resided at the time of the last preceding 
general registration (naming such time), or in which he 
has resided at any time subsequent thereto, he has been 
registered, or has applied for registration ; and if he 
shall swear that he has not, then the said Inspectors 
shall proceed with said application as with that of any 
other person who may apply to them ; but if he shall 
swear that he has been so registered, the said inspectors 
shall, before further proceeding, require him to present 
to them a “certificate of removal,’^ as provided for in 
this act, so that his name shall not be upon the regis¬ 
ters of two election districts ; and upon the presenta¬ 
tion to any board of Inspectors of any “ certificate of 
removal,” the said board shall treat the person present¬ 
ing the same in the manner provided in sub-division lY. 
of section twenty-one of this act for applicants for 
registration. 

Sei tiox 23. Any person who shall, at any time, as 
provided in this act, have personally applied to the 
inspectors of election in any election district of the 
city and county of New York for registration, and 
shall have in the registers thereof been entered as a 
qualified voter, and who shall at any time prior to the 


Trho on next 
election day 
would be voter® 
in the district. 


Proceedings 
if applicant has 
moved into the 
district since 
last registration 
day. 


Conditions to 
be complied 
with 


Certificate of re- 
moval provided 
for. 


Proceedings 
where persons 
remove from 
one dwelling to 
another. 


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Personal appli¬ 
cation to the 
Board of Inspec¬ 
tors necessary. 


Oath of re¬ 
moval to be 


Form of 


To be filed In 
the Bureau of 
Elections within 
24 hours after 
close of regis¬ 
tration. 


If Identity of 
applicant not 
satisfactory to 
inspectors, they- 
may cause his 
statements to 
he examined 
And verified. 


close of any general registration or revision of regis¬ 
tration, have removed from the dwelling place under 
which he shall, as a resident, be borne upon the regis¬ 
ters, may, upon any da}^ provided in this act for meet¬ 
ings of the inspectors of election, other than the day 
of any election, personally appear before the said in¬ 
spectors in the election district in which he resided at 
the time his name was entered upon the said registers, 
during the hours in this act provided for their sessions, 
and publicl}' take and subscribe, before one of said 
inspectors, the following oath or affirmation, which shall 
be known as an “ Oath of Removal: 

“I, residing at Nc 

in tlie Election District of 

the Assembly District of the City and County of New 

York, do solemnly swear (or aflii-m) that I am duly entered in the 
registers of said Election Distiict, from said residence, as a 
qualified voter, and that I have removed my place of residence to 
No. in the 

Election District of the Assembly District of 

said City and County, and I do hereby request that the proper entries 
and records be made as the same are provided for by law, and that a 
“ certificate of removal ’ be furnished me at this time.” 

That upon such oath or affirmation being made and 
subscribed as herein provided, it shall be the duty of 
the said inspectors to carefully preserve the same, and 
file within twenty-four hours after the close of any gen¬ 
eral registration or revision of registration in the bu¬ 
reau of elections. And upon any such person, so 
taking and subscribing said “ oath of removal, the 
said inspectors of election, if satisfied of the identity 
of the person making the same, with the person he 
claims to be, as the description of said last mentioned 
person shall appear on the registers, and if not satis¬ 
fied therewith, shall at once, by a police officer present, 
or by any one whom said board shall especially 
authorize, make an examination and inquir}^ at the 
place of residence of said person, as the same shall be 
entered upon the registers, as to the fact of the re¬ 
moval of such person from said dwelling place, when. 


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if his removal therefrom shall be found by the report 
of such person to be a fact, they shall immediately pro¬ 
ceed to strike from said registers, the name of such 
person, by entering in each of the registers, oppo¬ 
site to and* against the name of any such person, and 
in the column headed, “ Why Disqualified,’’’ the ^yord 
“removed,” in the column headed “Date of Erasing 
Name,” the months day, and year of such striking 
from said registers such name, and in the column 
headed “Remarks” the words “transferred to,” to¬ 
gether with the number of the election and assembly 
districts, to which such person shall in his “ oath of 
removal” state he has removed, and the initial letters 
of the name of the inspector who shall in each of said 
registers make such entries. And shall through the 
name of any such person, as the same shall appear 
on said registers, and there only, draw a line as in¬ 
dicative that such name is erased from the registers of 
that election district, and the name of any such 
person so found stricken and erased from said 
registers, shall, as to his name and his residence at 
the place in said registers entered under the column 
of “Residence,” be thereafter considered by the “bureau 
of elections,” all inspectors of election, and all other 
election officers, to be stricken from the registers of 
that election district, and shall be treated as if never 
entered thereon. If the dwelling-place to which any 
such person shall have removed, be within the bound¬ 
aries of the same election district, as was his former 
residence, as stated in the registers of said election 
district, the said inspectors shall in said registers, 
under the number or other description of the 
dwelling place to which such person has removed, 
enter his name, and in the ’ several columns opposite 
and against the same, such words and figures, as, prior 
to the striking from or erasing of the name of such 
person in the manner in this section above provided, 
were in the columns similarly headed and opposite to 


If found correct 
name to be 
stricken from 
register of din- 
trict from which 
applicant haa 
removed. 


Entries to b« 
made where 
name is erased. 


How re-entry of 
a name in re¬ 
gister of same 
district shall he 
made. 


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ViTiere removal 
i8 from one dis¬ 
trict to another, 
inspectors of 
former district 
shall issue cer- 
c»te of removal 
addressed to 
inspectors of 
district to which 
person has 
removed. 


Form of 


and against tlie name of such person as upon said regis¬ 
ters it appeared under the dwelling place from which 
he shall have declared he has removed ; and if the 
dwelling place to which any such person shall have 
removed, shall be within the boundaries of’any other 
election district, than was the residence, under which 
he was previously entered on said registers, the said 
inspectors of election shall fill up, sign, and deliver 
to such person a certificate, which shall be known 
as a “ Certificate of RemovaV’ and shall be in the 
words and figures following, to wit: 

“ CERTIFICATE OF REMOVAL.” 

Polling Place of the Election District 

City of New York, 

To the Board of Inspectors of Election, 

Election District 

This is to certify that the name of 
heretofore residing at 
in this Election District, has been by us, the Inspectors of Election in this 
district, stricken from the registers of this district and the proper erasure 
made, upon the “ Oath of Removal ” and at the request of said above- 
mentioned person; and that upon the registers of this election district; were 
entered as to him the following statements : 

Name Residence 

Sworn Nativity 

Color Term of Residence Assembly District County State 

Naturalized Date of Papers 

Couit Qualified Voter Date of Application 


Assembly District 
18 

Assembly District. 


Section 24. The inspectors of election in each elec¬ 
tion district shall, on each day of any general registra¬ 
tion, before adjourning, enter in each of two books |)re- 
pared for that purpose, one of which shall be known as 













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a “ public copy” of the registers, and the other 
of which shall be known as the “election bureau 
copy” of the registers, all such names and residences, 
and all such dala, information and statements as during 
the day have been entered by the inspectors of election 
in the registers provided in this act. And the whole six 
books shall, on each of said days, after the completion 
of such copies of the registers, be carefully compared 
throughout, so that each of the registers and the copies 
thereof shall in every respect agree with each other, 
and contain the name and residence of each person 
who shall have applied for registration, and the facts 
respecting him, as the same shall have been stated by 
him and entered in the registers, as provided in this 
act. 

The said Inspectors shall, on the last day of any 
general registration, certify each of said copies in the 
same manner as if it was an original, and within forty- 
eight hours after their adjournment on said last day of any 
such general registration shall tile the election bureau 
copy of the registers with the chief of the bureau of 
elections at his office, where the same shall be care¬ 
fully preserved. And the said inspectors shall, on 
the last day of any revision of registration, before 
adjourning, make a copy of the registers as they shall 
then be made up for the election next ensuing, which 
copy shall be marked, and known as a “public copy,” 
and shall be certified as a copy of the original regis¬ 
ters as then existing for the election next ensuing ; and 
they shall also make, fill and certify, in blanks to be 
prepared and furnished for that purpose, the name and 
all such other particulars as shall be entered against or 
opposite to the name of any person, which, having been 
once entered upon their registers, shall have been, on 
the days of any such revision of registration, for any 
reason stricken therefrom, as provided in this act, 
together with the name and all such other particulars 
as shall be entered against or opposite to the name of 


A ‘ public copj** 
and ‘ election 
bureau copy" o< 
register be 
made on each 
day of regiatra- 
tration. 


The registers 
and copies to b* 
compared each 
day, 


and on the last 

registration day 
each of said 
books to be 
certified, 
and within 48 
hours the "Eleo- 
tion Bureau 
copy" to be filed 
in that Bureau. 


On last day of 
revision copy 
of registers to 
be made and 
marked " pub¬ 
lic copy," and 
certified. 


On days of re¬ 
vision of regis¬ 
tration, blac^ 
containing the 
names, &o., of 
all persons 
stricken from 
or added to the 
said registers, 
to be made,filled 
up, certified and 
left at bureau 
of elections 
within 4d houra 


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any person who shall, on any such day of revision, 
have been added by them to the said registers, and 
said blanks so filled up and certified, shall, within forty- 
eight hours after the close of any revision of registra¬ 
tion, be left by one of said inspectors at the bureau 
of elections ; and it shall be the duty of the chief of 
the bureau of elections to immediately enter, or cause to 
be entered, in the election bureau copy of the registers 
of each election district, on file in his office, all the proper 
and necessary entries requisite to make said copy con¬ 
form to said registers, and be always a copy thereof. 

the lo of Section 25. The inspectors of election in each 
election district in said city and county of New York 
to Oil cacli day of any general registration, or revision 
prere^tfalse rcgistratioii, aiid before adjourning, shall, on each of 

the registers, and on each copy or copies thereof, as in 
this act it is provided, shall, on each of said days, be 
made or kept, draw in ink immediately below the last 
name entered underneath each dwelling place, and 
below the last written words and figures entered op¬ 
posite to or against such last name in each column, 
save that of “ residence,’^ a heavy line as indicative 
of the fact that the entering of names on the said 
■ registers for the day mentioned in the column headed 
“date of application,” and opposite to or against the 
name of the last person entered under any dwelling 
place there ceased. 

Section 26. The inspectors of election in each 
St^r^Lters election district in the city and county of New York, 
shall, in a place to be provided therefor on each of the 
registers, required in this act, fill up, date, and each sign 
with his name and place of residence the appropriate 
and proper certificate, which shall be either printed 
or written, and for a general registration shall be in 
the words and figures following, to wit: 


Entries to be 
Immediately 
made In " elec* 
tlon bureau 
copy of regist¬ 
ers’' by chief 
of bureau of 
elections, 


All registers at 


23 


“ We, the undersigned Inspectoi-s of Election, in the Election 

District of the Assembly District of the City and 

County of New York, do jointly and severally certify that at the general regis¬ 
tration of voters held in the said Election District, on the 
days of and the 

days of in the year , there were registered by 

us as qualified voters in the said Election District, the names which in this book 
are entered as of said days, and that the number of such registered qualified 
voters was and is 

Dated, New York, . 18 


And for a revision of any general registration, said 
certificate sliall be in the words and figures following, 
to wit: 

“We, the undersigned Inspectors of Elections in the Election 

District, of the Assembly District, of the City and 

County of New York, do jointly and severally certify that at the revision of 
the last general registration of voters held in said Election District, on the 
days of in the year of 

there were by us added to the registered qualified voters of said 
Election District, the names which in the registers are so entered as of 
t,he said days, and that such number was and is 

and that there were stricken from the registered 
qualified voters of said Election District, the names which in the register ap¬ 
peal- on said days to have been stricken off and erased in the manner pre¬ 
scribed by law, and that such number was and is 

leaving the total number of registered qualified voters in 
said Election District for the next ensuing election 

which is the number of names now borne in this book as such qualified voters 
for such electioii. 

Dated, New York, 18 


Section 27. The inspectors of. election, in each 
election district in the city and county of -Kew York, 
shall, after making and signing either of the aforesaid 
certificates, retain and carefully preserve all the said 


Form of certUl- 
cate for general 
registration. 


Form of 
certificate for 
revision of 
registration. 


Each inspector 
to retain a copj 
of register for 
nso on election 
daj. 










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registers provided for in this act—each inspector 
retaining the book which he made, or of which he had 
the custody and care on the days of any registra¬ 
tion or revision of registration—for their use on the 
day of the next ensuing election. The “public copy^^ of 
public copy of the registers they shall, at the close of their pro- 
li2pe?ded.^® ceedings on each day of any general registration and 
upon the termination of their proceedings on the last 
day of any revision of registration, leave suspended in 
the place where such registration or revision of regis¬ 
tration was conducted, where it shall be and remain 
until the next meeting of the said inspectors, whether 
such meeting be for the purpose of registration, re¬ 
vision of registration or election, to the end that the 
same may be inspected and copied by any elector 
SeanTreSin couiity. But on tlic day of any 

o??e^g^Son election the said inspectors shall take possession of said 
-day Of election, copy, and tlio cliairmaii shall closely retain 

the same throughout the said day, returning it to the 
chief of the bureau of elections, as provided in this 
act, for the return of the register kept by him, and 
Bu^Luo?Eiec. register; and said copy shall be by the said 

chief of the bureau of elections retained, and preserved 
and hied in said bureau. 


Registers to be 
jused on election 
day. 


Each Inspector 
to make use of 
one. 


No Tote to be 
received unless 
applicant’s name 
be found on 3 
registers by at 
least 3 inspec¬ 
tors. 


At the polls the 
name of each 
voter to be an¬ 
nounced. 


Section 28. The inspectors of election in each 
election district of the city and county of New York, 
shall, on the day of any election therein, have with 
them at the polling place in said district the registers 
provided for in this act. They shall each make use of 
one of said registers for guidance on said clay, and no 
vote shall be received from any person whose name 
shall not be found by at least three of them to be upon 
at least three of the said registers as a qualified voter. 
The chairman of said inspectors in each election 
district shall, if present, and if absent, then one of 
the other inspectors, shall, upon any person offering 
to vote, announce in a loud, clear and distinct man- 


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ner the name of such person, and no ballots shall 
be received by either of the inspectors or deposited Novotetobe 
in any of the ballot-boxes until at least three of the 

Ill 1 •! -Ill inspectors have 

said inspectors shall as herein above provided have found the name 

^ ^ of voter on 

examined and found the name-and residence of such ^ogfster.&c. 
person and have declared the same, and that such 
person is entered as a qualified voter : when, if the if vote is re- 

’ ceived, at least 

vote of said person is received, at least three of eSonXir 
the insiiectors shall write in the appropriate col- the word ‘ Yes” 

. to be written in 

umn bearing the heading “voted, and opposite to the 

name and residence of such person, the word “Yes.” It SXXf'lacf 

shall be the dut}" of each of the inspectors to note on votes, and 

^ inspectors to 


re¬ 
ceived in con¬ 
travention of 
this section. 


the register in his possession in a suitable and separate 
part thereof, the name and residence of each and 
eveiy person, if any, whose vote shall be received 
in contravention of the provisions of this section, and 
the name of the insiiector or inspectors, if any, who aiso names of 
shall so receive or deposit in the ballot-boxes or either violating this 

^ ^ section. 

of them any such vote ; and it shall further be-the duty 
of each of the inspectors, immediately on the close 
of the polls on the day of election, to compare the compared on 

I v' l close of polls, 

said registers kept by them as herein provided, and andcertiiied. 

attach to them a certificate in writing that the same 

are correctly checked, and within twenty-four hours after within 21 hours 

after canvass 

the completion of the canvass of the votes cast in the StXJeau®o< 
election district in which they served, to leave said filed aud pre- 

sorvsd* 

registers at the office of the chief of the bureau of 
elections, whose dut}^ it shall be to file and preserve the 
same, as provided in this act. And in no election part with pos- 

. , . , in • session of his 

district in the said city and county snail any inspector 


who has custody or charge of either of the registers in 
this act provided for, ever permit said register to leave 
•his possession from the time of receiving custod}^ of the 
same, until he shall file the same as provided in this act, 
save in the event of his resignation or removal, and 

^ If he resigns, 

the appointment, as provided in this act, of his sue- 
cessor, when he shall promptly surrender and turn 
over the same to him. 




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Olilef of th® 
election bureau 
to make full 
copies of re¬ 
cords of deaths 
of males. 


game to be kept 
in his ofdce. 


Names of such 
deceased voters 
to be arranged 
alphabetically 
by assembly 
districts and 
other details. 


Copy of an cb 
alphabetical 
record to be 
fnxnishe'i to 
each inspector. 


Buch record to 
be called the 
“record oi 
deaths.“ 


Section 29. The chief of the bureau of elections 
shcTll from time to time and at all times have full 
power and authority to make or cause to be made 
such full, complete and accurate copies as he shall 
deem necessary, of the records of the names, residences, 
age, date and cause of death of each male person who 
shall die in the city and county of New York, as the 
facts in respect to such death shall be furnished to, or 
the said records shall be kept by the register of 
records in the department of police or board of health 
in the city of New York, and shall keep, preserve 
and file in his office all such copies of said record. 

Section 30. It shall be the duty of the chief of the 
bureau of elections from time to time, as he shall 
obtain the names and facts as to death provided in the 
preceding section, to so arrange the names of all male 
persons 21 years of age and upwards, who, by his 
records, appear to have died subsequently to the 
passage of this act, as that alphabetical lists by 
assembly districts, with residences, ages, and a full 
statement of all particulars may, at any time, be made 
therefrom ; and from the names and facts so arranged, 
to have prepared and made, or printed, and to cause 
to be delivered to each inspector of elections in each 
election district in the city and county of New York 
on or before tlie organization of the board of in¬ 
spectors in each district on the first day of any revision 
of registration, an alphabetical record of the male 
persons 21 years of age and upwards, wlio, in the 
assembly district in which the election district in 
which the iiisiiector is to serve, since the third day 
prior to the day of the last preceding election, and 
within, at least, five clays prior to any sucli first day 
of revision of registration, have died. Said record 
shall be known and designated as a “record of deaths,” 
and it shall be the duty of each of the inspectors 
of election, in each election district, upon the receipt 


of such record to securely attach the same to the 
inside of the register in his custody, to the end 
that it may be preserved, and on the first da}^ 
of any meeting of the inspectors of election in 
aii}^ election district, held for the purpose of a 
revision of registration, it shall be the duty of 
each inspector, as soon as the organization of the 
board of inspectors is completed, to examine the 
register in his custody, and as to the name of every 
person upon said register, who, by said “ record of 
deaths,” shall, by a coincidence in respect to said 
name and facts, appear to have deceased, and opposite 
to and against every such name, to enter, in the 
eolumn headed “why disqualified,” the word “dead,^ 
in the column headed “date of erasing name,” the 
month, day and year of such erasing, and in the 
column headed “remarks,” the word, “stricken from 
registers,” adding against each such entry made in the 
column of “remarks” the initial letters of the name of 
the inspector making such entry, and through the name 
of every person so stricken from the registers, and 
there only, shall draw a line as indicative that such 
name is erased from the registers of that election 
district. 


Inspectors on 
receiving the 
“ record of 
deaths,” to at* 
tacli same to 
register. 


Register to be 
corrected by 
“record of 
deaths.” 


Proper entriea 
niifler several 
heads to bo 
made. 


Line to be 
di-awu through 
tlie name of 
each person 
erased. 


Section 31. It shall further be the duty of the chief 
of the bureau of elections to prepare by assembly of deaths.” 
districts, in the manner set forth in the preceding 
section, an additional record of such deaths as shall 
have occurred subsequent to the date of the “record 
of deaths” provided for in the preceding section, and 
within at least three days prior to the day of any such sequent to pre- 
local election held in the city of New Tork. Said rec- prior to 3 days 

'' before election 

ord shall be known and designated as an “additional to be inserted, 
record of deaths,” and a copy thereof shall, on or be¬ 
fore the opening of the polls in each election district 
on the day of any such local election, be furnished to 
each inspector, who shall securely attach the same to 


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a copy to be at¬ 
tached to the 
register. 


On opening of 
the polls the 
register to be 
corrected by the 
“additional 
record of deaths.” 


“Record of 
deaths,” and 
“additional 
record of 
deaths,” to be 
filed with chief 
of bureau. 


When. 


From passage of 
this act, clerks of 
oyer and termi¬ 
ner and general 
and special 
sessions to make 
monthly reports 
to chief of 
bureau 


of persons con¬ 
victed of crimes 
punishable with 
death or impris¬ 
onment in 
State prisons 
stating names 
and aliases. 

The offence 
charged. 

The sentence. 


Neglect of clerk 
of court a misde¬ 
meanor. 


Qualified voters 
on days of regis¬ 
tration and 
election. 


challenge and 
contest the . 
right to regis- 
trate or vote 

and may require 
any name to be 


the inside of his register, to the end that it ma}^ be pre¬ 
served, and lie have the same during the day of election 
with him at the polling place, and on the opening of the 
poll shall proceed to make the same examinations, en-^ 
tries, letters, and lines, as to the name of any registered 
person found upon said “additional record of deaths,’^ 
as is provided for in the preceding section in the case of 
a name of a registered person found on the “ record of 
deaths/^ 

Section 32. The “ record of deaths,” and the addi¬ 
tional record of deaths,” provided for in this act, and 
furnished to each inspector, shall be left by him with 
the chief of the bureau of elections at the time and in 
the manner provided for the return of the register used 
by him on the day of any local election, and with such 
register. 

Section 33. From and after the passage of this act it 
shall be the duty of each of the clerks of the courts of 
oyer and terminer and general and special sessions, to 
prepare, and on or before the fifth day of each and every 
month, to file with the chief of the bureau of elections, 
a certified record containing the name, residence, and 
age of each and every person convicted in each of said 
courts respectively of an offence punishable by death or 
imprisonment in a State prison, during the month imme¬ 
diately preceding, stating the alias or aliases of every 
such person, if known ; the offence with which charged 
the action of the court; and if sentenced, the sentence 
imposed, and whether confined in a State prison or Pen¬ 
itentiary. Any clerk of either of said courts who shall 
fail, neglect, or refuse to compl}- with the provisions or 
requirements of this section shall, for each and ever}^ 
such offence, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Section 34. Any person who is a qualified voter in 
the city and county of New York, may, upon any 
day of regis-tration, or revision of registration, or of 
election, challenge and contest the right of any person 
to be registered in any election district, or to vote at 
any poll in the said city or county, or may require the 
name of any registered person to be marked for chal- 


29 


lenge, and on any such day or days shall,be entitled to feSgetlnd'ml'y’' 
be heard by the inspectors of election in any election sp\cforl^o?o>- 
district in relation to corrections of or additions to their je^tions of regis- 
registers. 

Section 35. Hereafter “ the board of police’’ of the 
city of New York shall designate and appoint the place toTesignJle,'''* 
of registry and polling place in each of the election warm, and light 
districts of the city and county of New York, and shall 
hire all such places, and cause the same to be fitted up, 
warmed, lighted and cleansed, and the work of registra¬ 
tion shall be carried on at the places so designated for 
such purposes. But in each election district, such place ro°be>mSr 
shall be in the most public orderly and convenient por- andconv^nlent 
tions of the district, and no building or part of building b ut not in any 
shall be designated or used as a place of registry, re- hqui'^fs'^idor 
vision ot registration or polling place in which, or in within sixty da,^ 
any part of which, spirituous or intoxicating liquor is wSthlXii^ 
sold, or has been sold within sixty days next preceding 
the time of using the same ; and no place shall be desig¬ 
nated or used for an}^ such purpose without the same 
shall be well lighted with gas—unless there shall be no 
place in the district obtainable which is so lighted— 
and the unoccupied space allowed in front of the ballot andmus^fford 
boxes, in any polling place, shall be equivalent to a room feSsquLTn''^ 
at least twelve feet square. boxes. 

Section 36. At every election held in the city and E^chpolitical 
county of New York, each political party shall have the SSifat 
right to designate, place and keep a challenger at each 
place of registration, revision ol registration and voting, 
who shall be assigned such position immediately adjoin¬ 
ing the inspectors of election, as will enable him to see p^suion near 
each person as he offers to register or vote, and who ch^ieiS'rs^o*^ 
shall be protected in the discharge of his duty by the J;® 
inspectors of election and the police. Each political 
party may remove any challenger appointed by it, and 
all vacancies which, from any cause shall arise, shall be 
filled by the same party, power and authority as con- 
ferred the original appointment. * 

Section 37. [_jlmended by Oha/p, 621 of the Laws of No person shall 
1874, so as to read as fMows No person who is diftria while 


30 


the registration 
in another dis¬ 
trict remains 
unerased, except 
in certain cases. 


Concyrence of 
majority of in¬ 
spectors required 


In what cases. 


Inspectors and 
poll-clerks held 
to be election 
district officers. 


Attendance to 
duty to be con¬ 
stant. 


registered in one election district shall register, or cause 
himself to be registered, in another district while any 
prior registration remains unerased; or in aii}^ other 
manner than is in this act provided, but if in the event 
of any revision of any general registration in any portion 
of the city and county of New York, any person shall 
present himself before any board of registration for the 
purpose of being registered as a voter, and it shall ap¬ 
pear that the name of such person is borne upon the 
registry of any election district other than in which he 
shall at the time of such revision make application for 
registration, and that since the day of the preceding 
election or registration he has removed from the district 
in which he was then registered to the district in which 
he shall at the time of any such revision apply for regis¬ 
tration, and it shall also appear that there is no meeting 
of the board of inspectors in the district in which his 
name shall be borne upon the registry for the purpose of 
revision, then and in such event, the oath of removal 
may be made before any member of the board of inspec¬ 
tors in any district in which he shall have removed, and 
the person so appearing at any such revision of regis¬ 
tration shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges 
to which he would be entitled were the registration a 
general registration, and the said person making an 
original application for registration. 

Section 38. For all powers, authority and duties^in 
this act prescribed for or conferred upon, and all action 
required of inspectors of election or of a board of said 
inspectors, save where such authority or action is speci¬ 
fically allowed to each of said inspectors, the concur¬ 
rence or assent of a majority of all the inspectors of 
election in any election district must in all cases be 
obtained. 


Section 39. The several offices of inspectors of elec¬ 
tion and poll clerks, in this act named and created, are 
and shall be, in all courts and proceedings deemed and 
held respective!}^ to be election district offices, and it 
shall be the duty of the said inspectors of elections and 
poll clerks respectively, or a majority of the said in¬ 
spectors, to be in constant attendance during the hours 


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and limes fixed for the discharge of their several 
duties. 

Section 40. All data and statistics, and all registers, 
poll books and records of every kind and nature which, 
under this act or under any law of this State, or which 
in compliance with any direction, resolution, or order of 
“the board of police’^ of the cit}^ of New York, are or 
may be required to be made, ascertained or kept by, 
or returned to or filed with either the chief of the 
bureau of elections or the “register of records,’^ in the 
board of health, shall at times, during office hours, be 
open to the inspection, examination, comparison and 
copying of any citizen or elector, free of any charge 
whatsoever. 

Section 41. Any inspector of election, poll clerk, or 
other officer of elections, or any challenger appointed in 
compliance with the provisions of this act, or any person 
designated as provided in this act to be present at the 
canvass of any ballots, shall at any time between the 
Tuesday five weeks preceding the day of any general 
or local election held in the city and county of New 
York, and ten days after the first official promulgation 
by the board of county canvassers of the canvass, decla¬ 
ration and certificate of the result of any such election, 
have full power and authority to make a thorough and 
effective canvass of the election district^ in and for 
which he has been or was designated to serve and act, 
upon any da}^ of registration, revision of registration or 
election, and to make full inquiry respecting any and 
every male resident of any dwelling, building, or other 
place of abode in any such election district, his age, 
term of residence, and qualifications as a voter ; but the 
power and authority by this section conferred upon any 
inspector of election, poll clerk, or other officer of elec¬ 
tion, or any challenger or person designated to watch 
the canvass of ballots, shall wholly cease upon his resig¬ 
nation or removal from the office or position to wffiich he 
was appointed, or for which he was designated. 

Section 42. If at any time after the first general 
registration of voters had and made under the provi- 


Data, statistics, 
registers, books, 
papers, etc.. 


shall be during 
office hours open 
to inspection. 


Officers of elec¬ 
tion, etc., 


shall during a 
certain period. 


have full power 
and authority to 
canvass his dis¬ 
trict, 

and to make 
full inquiry, etc., 
into qualifica¬ 
tions of male resi- 
dents to vote. 


Such power to 
cease with his 
term of office. 


Special election 
in a portion of 
the city, same 
revision of reg- 


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w?r?a “ocai^ sioiis of this act, a special election shall be held in 
throughout the any portion of the city and countj^ of New York, the 
same revision of registration shall be had and made 
for any such portion of said city and county, and 
at the same intervals of time and times preceding 
the day of any such special election, and in the same 
manner as if the said election was a local election in, 
for and throughout the said city and county and each 
and every of the provisions of this act^ not incon¬ 
sistent with the terms of this section, shall apply with 
as full force and effect to any such special election or 
revision of registration therefor, as if the same was 
for a local election in, for and throughout the said 
city and county. 

Section 43. Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any 

street numbers , . *' 

authoiities, officeTS or agents of the city or 
county government, in the city and county of New 
York, to number or renumber any street, avenue, alley, 
lane, road or way in the city or county of New York, 
or to in anywise change or alter any such number, 
save between the first day of May and the first day of 
October of any year. 

Atcioseofpous Section 44. In each election district in the city and 
vass of ballots county of New York, it shall be the duty of the in- 
Snowoting specters of election to immediately after the close of 
l?dnuSrof ^“y election, before proceeding 

tobe°a?JrSa witli the canvass of the ballots in any box, and while the 
at each poll in a poll clcrks are canvassing [comparing] their books, to 
write in ink opposite to and against the name of each 
person entered in their registers, who is not shown by 
said registers to have voted, and in the column headed 
“Voted” the word “ No,” so that the said column may 
be wholly filled up—and the said inspectors shall 
then compare the said registers, make them agree, and 
ascertain the number of persons who by them are 
shown to have voted at that poll that day, and when 


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they have made comparison and ascertained such fact, 
the chairman of the board of inspectors, pr in his ab¬ 
sence, the inspector acting as such, shall announce the 
same in a loud voice. 

Section 45. The poll clerk at each poll in the city 
and county of New York, shall keep in ink a poll list 
in books to be prepared and furnished for that pur¬ 
pose, and shall contain a column headed “Residence,” 
a column headed “Name of Voter,” and as many ad- 
ditional columns as there are boxes kept at the election. 

^The headings of the additional columns shall corres¬ 
pond respectively with the names and numbers of the 
boxes so kept. 

Section 46. The poll books referred to in the pre- Fomot 
ceding section shall be in form as follows: 

POLL-LIST OF VOTERS. 


-ELECTION DISTRICT, -ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. 


No. 

Residence. 

Name of Voter. 

• 

Remarks, 




Here put in additional 
columns. 



The residnee of each elector voting shall be entered 
by each poll clerk in the column of his poll list headed 
“ Residence,” and the name of each such elector in the 
column headed “Name of Voter,” and opposite the 












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residence and name of any sucli elector in each addi¬ 
tional column provided for in the preceding section, 
and corresponding in its heading with the name and 
number of a box in which a ballot of the elector shall 
have been deposited, shall be written a check or mark 
similar to the letter V, and in each such additional 
column corresponding in its heading with the name and 
number of box in which no ballot of the elector shall 
have been deposited, shall be written the word “ No.’’ 
In the column of “Remarks,” opposite the name of 
each person challenged, shall be noted the oath or 
oaths offered and taken by any such person. 


At ClOM of poll 
inspectors to 
proceed to can¬ 
vass votes. 


Canvass to be 
public and with¬ 
out adjourn¬ 
ment until all 
statements are 
made and 
eigned. 


No vote to be 
received, or 
counted, or can¬ 
vassed, and no 
statement made 
while the en¬ 
trance topolliog 
place is closed 
or Obstructed. 


Disorderly per¬ 
sons may be ex¬ 
cluded. 


At least six per¬ 
sons, if so many 
desire, must 
always be 
present. 


Kach candidate 
< ny designate 
« person to be. 


Section’ 47. As soon as the poll of an election 
shall have been finally closed, the inspectors of 
election, in their several election districts, shall 
immediately, and at the place of the poll, proceed 
to canvass the votes. Such canvass shall be public, 
and shall not be adjourned or postponed until it 
shall have been fully completed, and the several 
statements hereinafter required to be made by the 
inspectors shall have been made out and signed by 
them. No vote shall be received, nor shall any ballot 
be counted or canvassed, nor shall any statement of 
votes, announcement, or proclamation, in this act 
required, be made at any time when the main 
entrance to the room in which the election is 
held, shall be closed in such a manner as to prevent 
ingress and egress, but the said inspectors may station 
one or more officers at such entrance to exclude 
disorderly persons ; nor shall any such duties be 
[)erformed unless at least six persons, if so many 
claim that privilege, are allowed to be present 
and so near that they can see whether the duties of 
the said inspectors are faithfully performed. 

Each candidate, for any office to be filled at the elec¬ 
tion, may, by a certificate in writing signed by him, 
designate one person for each election district in 


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which he is a candidate, to be present at the canvass 
of the ballots containing the names of the persons 
designated for that office. The inspectors of election 
and the police or other officers attending at such elec¬ 
tion district specified in said certificate, shall make a 
passage for such person to the said inspectors, and the 
said inspectors shall permit him to be present at the 
canvass of all the ballots in the box containing the 
ballots for the office specified in the said certificate, 
and so near to them that he can see that such canvass 
and the statement required of the votes found in each 
box are correctly made. And no inspector of election, 
or board of inspectors, or police or other officer, shall 
allow such person to be molested or removed during 
the canvass of such ballots, or until such statement 
laas been made, completed, and signed, unless he shall 
be personally guilty of fraudulent or disorderly con¬ 
duct.^ 

Section 48. The canvass shall commence by a com¬ 
parison of the poll lists, from the commencement, and 
% correction of any mistakes that may be found there- 
m, and such comparison shall be continued until the 
poll lists agree as to the number of ballots deposited 
In each box; when they have been made to agree, one 
of the inspectors shall publicly announce, in a loud 
voice, the number of ballots deposited in each box as 
shown by the poll lists. 

Section 49. The boxes shall then be opened, and the 
ballots therein canvassed, in the order prescribed in 
this section, and the canvass of the ballots found in 
one box shall be completed before another \>ox is 
opened. The boxes shall be canvassed in the follow¬ 
ing order: 

1. President. 

2. General. 

3. Congress. 


present at the 
canvass of bal< 
lots on which 
his name shall 
appear. 


Eights of per¬ 
sons so desig¬ 
nated to be 
present and wit¬ 
ness canvass. 


Not to be mo- 
1 eated or re¬ 
moved, unless, 
&o. 


How canvass 
shall commence. 


When poll lists 
are made to 
agree the result 
must be publicly 
announced in a 
loud voice. 


Boxes to be then 
opened and can¬ 
vassed. 


Order 


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First duty on 
opening boxes. 


In case two or 
more ballots are 
folded together. 


Ballots found In 
the wrong box 
how treated. 


Proceedings In 
case of excess 
in number of 
ballots. 


Process of can- 
yassing. 


Ballots to be 
opened and 
separated. 


4. Senate. 

6. Assembly. 

6. City. 

7. Justices. 


Section 50. When a box is opened, the ballots con¬ 
tained therein shall be taken out and counted un¬ 
opened, except so far as to ascertain that each ballot 
is single. If two or more ballots shall be found so 
folded together, as to present the appearance of a 
single ballot, they shall be destroyed, if the whole 
number of ballots exceeds the whole number of votes, 
as shown by the poll lists, and not otherwise. 

Section 51. No ballot properly endorsed, found in a 
box different from that designated by its endorsement, 
shall be rejected, but shall be counted in the same 
manner as if found in the box designated by such en¬ 
dorsement, provided that the counting of such ballot 
or ballots shall not produce an excess over the number 
of ballots deposited in the box, as shown by the poll 
lists. 

Section 52. If a greater number of ballots shall be 
found in a box than is required by the correspondent 
columns of the poll lists, all the ballots shall be re¬ 
placed in the box, and one of the said inspectors to be 
designated by the board shall, without seeing the 
same, and with his back to the box, publicly draw out 
and destroy as many ballots unopened as shall be 
equal to such excess. 

Section 53. The board shall then proceed to canvass 
and estimate the votes in the following manner: The 
said inspectors shall open the ballots, and place those 
which contain the same names together, so that the 
several kinds shall be in separate piles or on separate 


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files. One of the said inspectors shall then take the 
kind of ballots which appears to be the greatest in 
number and count them by tens, carefully examining 
each name on each of said ballots. Such inspector 
shall then pass ten ballots to the inspector sitting 
next to him, who shall count them in the same man¬ 
ner, and he shall then pass them to the third inspect¬ 
or, who shall also count them in the same manner. 
The third inspector shall then call the names of the 
persons named in the ballots, and the offices for 
which they are designated, and the poll clerks shall 
tally the votes for each of such persons. The fourth 
inspector shall watch the proceedings of the other 
inspectors, and the poll clerks, and at his option 
may perform the same duties in respect to the canvass 
as are prescribed for the third inspector, or in case of 
the absence of a poll clerk, may perform his duties. 

When the counting of each kind of ballots shall be 
completed, the poll clerks shall compare their tallies 
together and ascertain the total number of ballots of 
that kind so canvassed, and when they agree upon the 
number, one of them shall announce it, in a loud voice, 
to the inspectors. 

The kind of ballots which appears to be next 
greatest in number, and afterwards each of the other 
kind of ballots in succession, shall then be canvassed 
in the same manner. The ballots containing names 
partly from one kind of ballots and partly from 
another, being-those usually called “split tickets, 
and those from which the name of a person proper to 
be voted for on such ballots has been omitted or erased, 
usually called “scratched tickets,’^ shall then be can¬ 
vassed separately by one of the inspectors sitting be¬ 
tween two of the other inspectors, which inspector shall 
call each name to the poll clerks, and the office for 
which it is designated, the other inspectors looking at 
the ballot at the same time, and the poll clerks mak- 
iim’ note of the same. When all the ballots found in 

o 


Order and man* 
ner oi counting. 


By teou, 


by three In¬ 
spectors in Buo- 
cession. 


Duty of third 
inspector. 


Duty of poll 
clerks. 


Duty of fourth 
inspector. 


Poll clerks to 
compare tallls% 
and announce 
the number in 
a loud Yoioe. 


Further order 
of canyassing. 


SpUt tickets, 
& 0 . 


Scratched 
tickets, when, 
how, and by 
whom can¬ 
vassed. 


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After canvass of 
box, poll clerks 
compare tallies 
and announce 
in a loud voice, 
number cast for 
each candidate 
on each kind of 
ticket. 


Proceedings In 
case of excess 
of ballots in box. 


A ballot of each 
kind to be past¬ 
ed on each 
statement, and 
certificate to be 
made thereon. 


the box have been canvassed in this manner, the poll 
clerks shall compare their tallies together and ascer¬ 
tain the total number of votes received by each can¬ 
didate, and when they agree upon the numbers, one 
of them shall announce, in a loud voice, to the in¬ 
spectors, the number of votes received by each can¬ 
didate, on each of the kinds of ballots containing his 
name, the number received by him on the ‘^split'^ 
and “ scratched ” tickets, and the total number of votes 
received by him. 

If, after the ballots in any box have been opened or 
canvassed, the whole number of them shall be found 
to exceed the whole number of votes required by the 
corresponding columns of the poll lists, the said inspect¬ 
ors shall return all the ballots into the box, and shall 
thoroughly mingle the same, and one of the inspectors 
to be designated by the board, shall, without seeing the 
same and with his back to the box, publicly draw out of 
such box so many of such ballots as shall be equal to 
the excess, which shall be forthwith destroyed ; but if 
the ballots have been canvassed, the votes for the 
persons named therein shall first be deducted from the 
votes entered for such person on the tallies. 

Section 64. The canvass of the ballots found in any 
box shall be completed by ascertaining how many 
ballots of the same kind, corresponding in respect to 
the names of the persons thereon and the offices for 
which they are designated, have been received ; and the 
result being found, the said inspectors shall securely 
paste or attach to each statement of such canvass here* 
inafter directed to be made one ballot of each kind found 
to have been given for the officers to be chosen at 
such election ; and they shall state in words at full 
length, immediately opposite simh ballot, and written 
partly on such ballot and partly on the paper to 
which it shall be pasted or attached, the whole 
number of all the ballots that were received which 


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correspond with' the one so pasted or attached, so that 
one of each kind of the ballots received at such elec¬ 
tion for the officers then to be chosen, shall be pasted 
or attached to such statement of such canvass. If only ifomyone kind 
one ballot of any kind shall be found.in the box, it S^po^ae hereof, 
shall be'pasted or attached to the statement to be 
delivered to the clerk of the board of supervisors, 
and if only two ballots of any kind are found in the iftwoomy. 
box, one shall be pasted or attached to the statement 
to be delivered to the clerk of the board of super¬ 
visors and the other to the statement to be delivered 
to the county clerk. They shall also paste or attach All ballots re- 

J ir jected as defeo- 

all the ballots rejected by them as being defective edtosutement 
in whole or in part, to the statement to be delivered 
to the clerk of the board of supervisors. 

Section 55. When the canvass of the ballots found 

any box are can- 

in any box shall have been completed, and the poll clerks Sfon t^bl^’ 
shall have announced to the inspectors the total num- 
ber of votes received by each candidate, the chair¬ 
man of the board of inspectors of election, or in his 
absence the inspector acting as such, shall proclaim, 
in a loud voice, the total number of votes received 
by each of the persons voted for upon the ballots 
found in that box, and the office for which they are 
designated, and such proclamation shall be prima prociam*. 
facie evidence of the result of the canvass of sucli 
ballots. 

Section 56. The said inspectors shall make triplicate Triplicate state- 

... inents of the 

statements of the result of the canvass, and estimate 
of tlie votes. Each of the statements shall contain a 
caption, stating the clay on which, and the number of 
the election district, and assembly district, and the 
city and county in relation to which such statement 
shall be made, and the time of opening and closing the 
polls of such election district. It shall also contain a 
statement showing the whole number of votes given for 


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•each person, designating the office for which they were 
given, which statement shall be written, or partly 
written and partly printed, in words at length ; and at 
Certificate of the end thereof a certificate that such statement is 

statement to be . 11 i • i i ^ 

SKeefbT respects; which certilicate and each 

sheet of paper forming part ot the statement shall be 
subscribed by the said inspectors and poll clerks. If any 

Inspectors de- . n i i k n i t ^ 

t?“6tete*reaSi8 mspectoi’ 01 * poll clei'k shall decline to sign any re¬ 
in writing. s\m\\ state his reasons therefor in writing, andii 

copy thereof signed by him shall be enclosed with each 
Jtatementsto rctum. Each of tlic statciuents shall be enclosed in an 

be enclosed and 

seeled with wax. e^yelopc, wliicli shall then be securely sealed with wax, 
and each of the inspectors and each of the poll clerks 
shall write his name across every fold at which the en¬ 
velope, if unfastened, could be opened, and across the 
seals thereon. One of the envelopes shall be directed 

One directed to ^ 

Sf^supirvilflrl outside to the clerk of the board of supervisors, 

tycierv^^^ aiiothei* to the county clerk, and the third to the chief of 
the bureau of elections. Each set of tallies shall also be 
Tames inclosed eiiclosed, socurely sealed and signed in like manner, 
and one of the envelopes shall be directed on the 
tbeothST'"’ outside to the chief of the bureau of elections, and 
the other to the mayor. On the outside of, every 
envelope shall be endorsed whether it contains the 
statement or the tallies and for what election and 
assembly district. 

Section 57. Within twenty-four hours after the 
several statements shall have been subscribed, one 
of the said inspectors shall deliver to the clerk of the 
board of supervisors the statement directed to him; 
another inspector shall deliver to the county clerk the 
statement directed to him, and a third inspector shall 
deliver to the chief of the bureau of elections the state¬ 
ment directed to him. One of the poll clerks shall de- 
to be delivered, liver to th« mayor the tallies directed to him, and the 
other poll clerk shall deliver to the chief of the bureau 
of elections the tallies directed to him. 


of electiouB. 


By whom and 
at what time 
delivery of 
statements to 
obe made. 


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Section 58. The poll lists kept at such election shall 
be certihed, in writing, by both poll clerks, to be a true 
und correct list of the votes cast at the said election, 
in their respective election districts, and within twenty- 
four hours of the close of the canvass shall be filed by 
such poll clerks, the one in the office of the county 
clerk, the other in the office of the chief of the bureau 
of elections, and shall be there preserved. 

Section 59. The remaining ballots, not so pasted or 
attached to said statements, as hereinbefore provided, 
shall be destroyed, and the board of inspectors shall be 
dissolved. 

Section 60. In case any officer to whom any of the 
papers in the preceding sections are directed to be 
delivered, shall be absent from his office, the same may 
be delivered to the person authorized in such case to 
attend to his official duties, and the officer or person to 
whom any envelope containing any statement or talljr, 
or to whom any register or copy thereof, or poll list 
shall be delivered as in this act provided, shall give a 
receipt therefor to the inspector or poll clerk from 
whom the same is received, and such receipt shall be 
filed by said inspector or poll clerk in the office of the 
-comptroller, before any payment for his services shall 
be made. 

Section 61. The envelopes delivered to the clerk of 
the board of supervisors shall be kept sealed, and shall 
not be opened until the same are produced before the 
board of county canvassers, when they shall be opened 
for the canvassing of the returns, and when so opened, 
the presiding officer of the said board shall mark each 
separate sheet of the statements with the initials of his 
name. 

Section 62. The envelopes delivered to the county 
•clerk shall be kept sealed and unopened until the same 


Poll lists to be 
certified and 
filed. 


One wKli eonnty 
eierk, other 
with bH,reau o/ 


Bailols not 
attached to 
statements to 
be destroyed. 


How papers 
may be delif- 
ered. 


Receipts to be 
given. 


Receipts to be 
filed in office oi 
comptroller be¬ 
fore payment. 


Envelope filed 
with oerk of 
board oi super¬ 
visors to bo 
opened only by 
board of county 
canvassers, and 
tl>ien to be 
marked. 


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The like as to 
envelopes do- 
livered to coun¬ 
ty clerk. 


Board of county 
canvassers. 


Their duty. 


How to be per¬ 
formed. 


Offences at reg¬ 
istration. 


Falsely person¬ 
ating an elector 
or attempting 
to register 


under the name 
of another, or 
a false name, 


or register in 
two districts. 


or attempt to 
register, not 
having right. 


or aid and pro¬ 
cure, kc., &c., 


shall be required to be opened by the board of county 
canvassers, or other lawful authority; and when so 
opened, the officer or person opening the same shall 
mark each separate sheet of the statement with the 
initials of his name. 

Section 63. The board of supervisors of the county 
of New York sliall be the board of count}" canvas¬ 
sers, and it shall be their duty to finally canvass, 
declare, and certify the result of every election here¬ 
after held in the city and county of New York. 
Such canvass, declaration, and certification shall be 
made and conducted under the existing provisions of 
law, not inconsistent with this act, so far as the same 
are applicable. 

Section 64. If at any general registration of voters, 
or at any meeting of inspectors of election, held for 
such purpose or for a revision thereof, as provided 
in this act, any person shall falselj" personate an 
elector or other person, and register, or attempt to 
offer to register, in the name of such elector or other 
person ; or if any person shall knowingly or fraud¬ 
ulently register, or offer or attempt, or make applica¬ 
tion to register, in or under the name of any other 
person, or in or under any false, assumed or fictitious 
name, or in or under any name not his own ; or shall 
knowingly or fraudulently register in two election 
districts ; or, having registered in one district, shall 
fraudulently attempt or offer to register in anotlier : or 
shall fraudulently register, or attempt or offer to reg¬ 
ister in any election district not having a lawful 
right to register therein ; or shall knowingly or 
willfully do any unlawful act to secure registration 
for himself or any other person ; or shall knowingly, 
willfully or fraudulently, by false personation or other¬ 
wise, or by any unlawful means cause or procure, or 
attempt to cause or procure the name of any qualified 


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oter in any election district to be erased or stricken 
from any registry of the voters of such district, made 
in pursuance of this act, or otherwise than as is 
in this act provided ; or by force, threat, menace, 
intimidation, bribery, reward or offer, or promise 
thereof, or other unlawful means, prevent, hinder or 
delay any person having a lawful right to register or 
be registered, from duly exercising such right ; or 
who shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently compel 
or induce, or attempt or offer to compel, or induce 
by such means, or any unlawful means, any inspector 
of election or other officer of registration, in any 
election district, to register or admit to registration 
any person not lawfully entitled to registration in 
such district, or to register any false, assumed or 
fictitious name, or any name or any person, except as 
provided in this act; or shall knowingly or willfully^ 
or fraudulently interfere with, hinder or delay, any 
inspector of election or other officer of registration 
in the discharge of his duties, or counsel, advise or 
induce, or attempt to induce any such inspector or 
other officer to refuse or neglect to comply with, or to 
perform his duties, or to violate any law prescribing or 
regulating the same ; or shall aid, counsel, procure 
or advise any voter, person, inspector of election or 
other officer of registration, to do any act by law 
forbidden, or in this act constituted an offence, or to 
omit to do any act by law directed, to be done, every 
such person shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged 
guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprison¬ 
ment in a state prison not less than one nor more than 
five years. 

Section 65. If, at any election hereafter held in the 
city and county of New York, any person shall falsely 
personate any elector or other person, and vote, or 
attempt, or offer to Vote in or upon the name of such 
elector or other person ; or shall vote or attempt to 


or hinder or 
delay persons 
having lawful 
right, &c., &c., 


or Interfere 
with election 
officers, 


or Induce officer 
to neglect hia 
duties. 


Each a felony. 


How punished. 


Offences at 
elections. 


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Tote in or upon the name of any other person whether 
living or dead, or in or upon any false, assumed, or 
fictitious name, or in or upon any name not his own ; 
or shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently, vote 
more than once for any candidate for the same office, 
except as authorized by law, or shall vote or attempt 
or offer to vote in any election district without having 
a lawful right to vote therein, or vote more than once, or 
vote in more than one election district, or having once 
voted, shall vote, or attempt, or offer to vote again; 
or shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently do any 
unlawful act to secure a right, or an opportunity, 
to vote for himself or for any other person ; or shall 
by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery, or 
reward, or offer, or promise thereof, or otherwise 
unlawfully, either directly or indirectly, influence, or 
attempt to influence any elector in giving his vote, or 
prevent or hinder, or attempt to prevent or hinder, 
any qualified voter from freely exercising the rights of 
suffrage, or by any such means induce, or attempt to 
induce, any such voter to refuse to exercise any such 
right; or shall by any such means, or otherwise^ 
compel or induce, or attempt to compel or induce, any 
inspector of election or other officer of election, in any 
election district, to receive the vote of any person not 
legally qualified or entitled to vote at the said election 
in such district; or shall knowingly, willfully or 
fraudulently interfere with, delay or hinder in any 
manner any inspector of election, poll clerk or 
other officer of election, in the discharge of his duties; 
or by any of such means, or other unlawful means, 
knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently, counsel, advise, 
induce, or attempt to induce, any inspector of election, 
poll clerk, or other officer of election, whose duty it 
is to ascertain, proclaim, announce, or declare the result 
of any such election, or to give or make any certficate, 
document, report, return, or other evidence in relation 
thereto, to refuse or neglect to comply with his duty„ 



45 


or to violate any law regulating tlie same, or to receive 
the vote of any person, in any election district, not 
entitled to vote therein, or to refuse to receive the vote 
of any person entitled to vote therein; or shall aid, 
counsel, advise, procure, or assist, any voter, person, 
or inspector of election, or other officer of election, to 
do any act by law forbidden, or in this act constituted 
an offense, or to admit to do any act bylaw directed to 
be done: every such person shall, upon conviction 
thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be 
punished for each and every such offence by imprison- 
ment in a state prison for not less than one nor more 
than five years. 

Section 66. -If any poll clerk, or any inspector of oerum 
election, performing the duties of poll clerk, shall 
willfully keep a false poll list, or shall knowingly insert 
in his poll list any false statement, or any name or state¬ 
ment, or any check, letter or mark, except as in this 
act provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be ad¬ 
judged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by 
imprisonment in a state prison for not less than one HowtroHAta; 
nor more than five years. 

Section 67. Every inspector of election who shall 
willfully exclude any vote duly tendered, knowing that 
the person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote 
at such election, or shall willfully receive a vote 
from any person who has been duly challenged, in re- 
le.tion to his right to vote at such election, without ex¬ 
acting from such person such oath or other proof of 
qualification as may be required by law, or who shall 
willfully omit to challenge any person offering to vote, 
whom he knows or suspects not to be entitled to vote, 
and who has not been challenged by any other person, 
shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a 
felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a 
state prison for not more than two years. 


46 


Certain acta of 
any officer of 
election or 
member of 
board of can¬ 
vassers de¬ 
clared felonies. 


How pxmlshed. 


Section 68. Every inspector of election, member 
of any board of canvassers, messenger, poll clerk, or 
other officer authorized to take part in or perform any 
duty in relation to any canvass or official statement of 
the votes cast at aii}^ election, who shall willfully make 
any false canvass of such votes, or shall make, sign, 
publish, or deliver, any false return of such election, 
or any false certificate or statement of the result of 
such election, knowing the same to be false, or who 
shall willfully deface, destroy, or conceal any statement 
or certificate entrusted to his care or custody, shall, on 
conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and 
shall be punished by imprisbnmeut in a state prison 
not less than two nor more than five years. 


stuffing ballot- 
bozei. 


Changing bal¬ 
lots, 


removing from 
or adding bal¬ 
lots to ballot- 
box declared 
felonies. 


Section 69. If any person other than an inspector of 
election, shall at any such election, knowingly and will¬ 
fully put, or cause to be put, any ballot or ballots, or 
other paper having the semblance thereof, into any box 
used at such election for the reception of votes ; or if any 
such inspector shall knowingly and willfully, cause or 
permit any ballots to be in said box at the opening of 
the polls and before voting shall have commenced ; or 
shall knowingly and willfully, or fraudulently put any 
ballot or other paper having the semblance thereof into 
any such box at any such election, unless the same 
shall be offered by an elector, and his name shall have 
been found and checked upon the register, as herein¬ 
before provided ; or if any such Inspector, or other 
officer or person, shall fraudulently, during the can¬ 
vass of ballots, in any manner change, substitute or 
alter any ballot taken from the box then being can¬ 
vassed, or from any box which has not been canvassed, 
or shall remove any ballot, or semblence thereof from, 
or add any ballot, or semblance thereof to the ballots 
taken from the box then being canvassed, or from any 
box which has not been canvassed, every such person 
shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of 


47 


felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a 

n i. 1 r. How punished, 

state prison tor not less than one nor more than five 
years. 

Section 70. If any inspector of election, poll fupl'^rid'wnfS 
clerk, or other officer of registration, revision, election, on°part of ^ 

_ . . , . , . election officers 

or canvass, in [of] whom any duty is required in this act, 
or by the general election laws of this state, so far as 
the same are consistent with the provisions of this act, 
shall be guilty of any willful neglect of such duty, or 
of any corrupt or fraudulent conduct or practice in 
the execution of the same, he shall, on conviction 
thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be 
punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not 
less than one nor more than five years. 

Section 71. Every inspector of election, poll clerk, Acts by election 

V ^ f ’ officers in steal- 

or other officer or person having the custody of any Sutifating7rr®’ 
record, register of voters, or copy thereof, oath, return ing.'TiferinTor 
of votes, certificate, poll-list, or of an}" paper, document, 
or evidence of any description, in this act directed to be S^aSiared® 
made, filed or preserved, who is guilty of stealing, will- 
fully destroying, mutilating, defacing, falsifying, or fraud¬ 
ulently removing or secreting the whole or any part 
thereof, or who shall fraudulently make any entry, 
erasure, or alteration, therein, except as allowed and 
directed by the provisions of this act, or who permits 
any other person so to do, shall, upon conviction 
thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be 
punished for each and every such offence by imprison¬ 
ment in a state prison, not exceeding five years, and how punished, 
shall, in addition thereto, forfeit his office. 

Section 72. Every person not an officer, such as is 
mentioned in the last preceding section, who is guilty 
of any of the acts specified in said section^ or who 
advises, procures, or abets the commission of the same, 
or any of them, shall, upon conviction thereof, be 


48 


How punished. 


False swearing 
nnder this act 
declared per* 

)ury* 


Instigating or 
procuring 
others to swear 
false, declared 
subornation 
of perjury. 


Acts tending to 
defraud a rotor 
of his TOtO, 
declared leloQ* 
les. 


How iranlshed, 
If committed 
by an election 
officer, and how 
If by others. 


adjudged guilty of a felony, and for each and every 
such offence shall be punished by imprisonment in a 
state prison, not exceeding five years. 

Section 73. Any person who shall be convicted of 
willful and corrupt false swearing or affirming, in 
taking any oath or affirmation prescribed by, or upon 
any examination provided for, in this act, or upon 
being challenged as unqualified, upon offering to 
register or vote, shall be adjudged guilty of willful and 
corrupt perjury. 

Section 74. Every person who shall willfully and 
corruptly instigate, advise, induce or procure any 
person to swear or affirm falsely, as aforesaid,, 
or attempt or offer so to do, shall be adjudged guilty 
of subornation of perjury, and shall, upon conviction 
thereof, suffer the punishment directed by law in cases 
of willful and corrupt perjury. 

Section 75. If any person shall fraudulently change, 
or alter the ballot of any elector, or substitute one 
ballot for another, or fraudulently furnish any elector 
with a ballot containing more than the proper number 
of names, or shall intentionally practice any fraud upon 
any elector to induce him to deposit a ballot as his vote, 
and to have the same thrown out and not counted, or to 
have the same counted for a person or candidate other 
than the person or candidate for whom such elector in¬ 
tended to vote, or otherwise defraud him of his vote; 
every such person shall, on conviction thereof, be ad¬ 
judged guilty of a felony, and shall, if an inspector of 
election, poll clerk, or other officer of election, be 
punished with imprisonment in a state prison not less 
than two nor more than five years, and if not, such 
inspector, poll clerk, or other officer of election shall 
be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not 
less than one nor more than five years. 


40 


Section 76. If any person who shall have been con¬ 
noted of briber}^, felony, or other infamous crime un¬ 
der the laws of this state, shall thereafter vote or 
offer to vote at any election in the city and county of 
New York, without having been pardoned and re¬ 
stored to all the rights of a citizen, he shall, upon 
conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and 
for each and every such offence, shall be punished by 
imprisonment in a state prison for not less than one 
nor more than three years. 

Section 77. If any person shall willfully disobe}^ 
any lawful command of an inspector of election, or of 
any board of inspectors of election, given in the ex¬ 
ecution of his or their duty as such, at any election, 
he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprison-* 
ment in a penitentiary for not less than thirty days nor 
more than one year, or by a line of not less than two 
hundred and fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, 
or by both such fine and imprisonment. 

Section 78. If, at any general registration of voters 
or revision thereof, or on any day of election, or 
during the canvass of the votes cast thereat, any per¬ 
son shall cause any breach of the peace, or use any dis¬ 
orderly violence or threats of violence, whereby any 
such registration, revision, election, or canvass shall 
be impeded or hindered, or whereby the lawful pro¬ 
ceedings of any inspector of election, or board of in¬ 
spectors of election, or poll clerk, or other officer of such 
election, or challenger, or person designated to be pre¬ 
sent at the canvass of any ballots, as hereinbefore pro¬ 
vided, are interfered with, every such person shall, 
upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, 
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by 
imprisonment in a state prison, for not less than one 
nor more than live years. 


Convicted 
felons offering 
to vote unless 
pardoned 
of felony. 


How punished.. 


Disobeying any 
lawful com¬ 
mand of board' 
of inspectors 
declared a mis- 
demeanor. 


How punishedL 


Certain dis¬ 
orderly acts at 
places of regis¬ 
tration and polls 
of election, de¬ 
clared felonlea. 


Bow poniabed: 


4 


50 


Acts of inter¬ 
ference with 
election officers, 


in performance 
of duty 


at the election, 


or at the can¬ 
vass of votes, 


or going to or 
from such 
duties, 


or threats or 
attempts, 
declared mis¬ 
demeanors. 


How punished. 


Wilful neglect 
or refusal to 
perform duties 
of inspector 
declared a mis¬ 
demeanor. 


Section 79. If any person knowingly, or willfully 
shall obstruct, hinder, assault, or by bribery, solicita¬ 
tion or otherwise, interfere with any inspector of elec¬ 
tion, poll clerk, challenger, or person designated as pro¬ 
vided in this act, to be present at the canvass of any bal¬ 
lots, in the performance of any duty required of him, or 
which he may by law be authorized or permitted to 
perform; or if any person, by aAy of the means before 
mentioned, or otherwise unlawfully, shall on the day of 
registration, revision of registration, or of election, hin¬ 
der or prevent any inspector of election, poll clerk, 
challenger, or person designated, as provided in this act, 
to be present at the canvass of ballots in his free attend¬ 
ance and presence at the place of registration, or revision 
of registration, or of election in the election district, in 
and for which he is appointed or designated to serve, 
or in his full and free access and egress, to and from 
any such place of registration, revision of registration, 
or of election, or to and from any room where any such 
registration, revision of registration, or election, or can¬ 
vass of votes, or of making any returns or certificates 
thereof, may be had or shall molest, interfere with, re¬ 
move or eject from any such place of registration, or 
poll of election, or of canvassing ballots cast thereat, or 
of making returns or certificates thereof, any such in¬ 
spector of election, poll clerk, challenger, or person 
designated, as provided in this act, to watch tjhe canvass 
of any ballots, save as otherwise provided in‘this act, or 
shall unlawfully threaten, or attempt, or offer so to do, 
every such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment 
in a penitentiary for not less than six months, nor more 
than one year, or shall be fined not less than five hundred 
nor more than two thousand dollars, or both, 

Section 80. Any inspector of election, who shall 
willfully neglect, or when called on, shall willfully de¬ 
cline to exercise the powers conferred on him in this 


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act, for any of the purposes set fortli in section nine¬ 
teen of tliis act, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ 
meanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished 
by imprisonment in a penitentiary for not less than 
thirty days, nor more than one year, or by a fine ofmot 
less than two hundred and fifty, nor more than one 
thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprison¬ 
ment. 

Section 81. If any person shall, upon the day of 
any such election, or before the canvass of voters is 
completed, steal, or willfully break or destroy any ballot 
box used, or intended to be used, at such election, or 
shall willfully or fraudulently conceal, secrete, or remove 
any such box from the custody of the inspectors of 
election, or shall alter, deface, injure, destroy, or con¬ 
ceal any ballot which has been deposited in any ballot 
box at such election, which has not been already 
counted and canvassed, or any poll list used, or 
intended to be used at such election, or any report, 
return, certificate, or other evidence in this act required, 
as provided for, shall, on conviction thereof, be ad¬ 
judged guilty of a felony, and shall, for each and 
every such offence, be punished by imprisonment 
in a state prison, for not less than two nor more than 
five years. 

Section 82. If in any election district, at any general 
registration of voters or revision thereof, or at any 
election hereafter held in the city and county of New 
York, any inspector of election or poll clerk shall 
knowingly or willfully admit any person to registra¬ 
tion, or make any entry upon any register of voters or 
poll book, or receive any vote, or proceed with the 
canvass of ballots, or shall consent thereto, unless 
a majority of all the inspectors of election, in said 
election district, are present and concur, he shall, upon 
conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misde- 


How punished. 


Stealing or des¬ 
troying, secret¬ 
ing or removing 
ballot-boxes or 
ballots, poll- 
lists, reports, re¬ 
turns, certifi¬ 
cates, &c., de¬ 
clared a felonj,. 


How punished. 


Inspectors and 
poll clerks ad¬ 
mitting persons 
to registration 
willfully and un¬ 
lawfully, guilty 
of a misde¬ 
meanor. 


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How punlshed- 


Absonce from 
duty, except 
from urgent 
necessity, a 
misdemeanor. 


How punished. 


District attor¬ 
ney to prose¬ 
cute all com¬ 
plaints of viola¬ 
tions of this 
act to final judg¬ 
ment. 


Judgment not 
to be suspended 
more tliiiu ten 

days. 


Complainant to 
have at least 2 
days notice In 
writing. 


Keeping ballots, 
■electioneering, 
and distributing 
tickets in poU- 
ing places, 
declared a mis- 
-demeanor. 


meanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the 
county jail not less than thirty nor more than sixty 
days, or lined not less than one hundred nor more than 
one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprison¬ 
ment. If any inspector of election in any election dis¬ 
trict shall, without urgent necessity, absent himself from 
the place of registration or the polls in said district, 
upon any clay of registration or election, whereby less 
than a majority of all the inspectors in such elec¬ 
tion district shall be present during the hours of regis¬ 
tration, election or canvass of ballots, he shall, upon 
conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail 
not less than sixty days nor more than six months, or 
shall be lined not less than five hundred nor more 
than one thousand dollars or both. 

Section 83. It is hereby made the especial duty of the 
district attorney of the county of New York to imme¬ 
diately prosecute all complaints which may be made of 
a violation of any of the provisions of this act, or of 
the election laws of the state, to final judgment; and 
the court before which any conviction for such violation 
shall be had shall not, in any case, suspend sentence or 
judgment for more than ten days; but no indictment for 
such violation shall be brought to trial unless the com¬ 
plainant (if any), if he can be found, shall have at least 
two day’s notice, in wi‘iting, from the said district attor¬ 
ney, of the day when he intends to try the same. 

Section 84. It shall be unlawful for any inspector 
of election, poll clerk, challenger, or person designated 
as provided in this act to be present at the canvass 
of any ballots in any district, during the elec¬ 
tion or canvass of ballots, to have or keep any ballots 
behind the boxes (U* within the polling place, or for 
them or any person or persons within the polling place, 
to electioneer, distribute tickets or ballots, or engage in 


5: 


an}" polifical discussion. Any violation of this section \ 

shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by im¬ 
prisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor 
more than ninety days, or by a fine of not less than how punished, 
one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or 
both. 

Section 85. Whoever, during the sitting of any 
board of inspectors of election in any election district 
in the city and county of New York, whether held for 
the purpose of registration, revision of registration, re- 
’Ception or canvass of votes, or of making return there- Having distmed 
of, shall bring, take, order, or send into, or shall cause llgnora in 
to be taken, brought, ordered, or sent into, or shall at- d^iared^mii. 
tempt to bring, take, or send into any place of regis¬ 
tration or revision of registration or of election, any 
distilled or spirituous liquors whatever, or shall at any 
such time and place drink or partake of any such 
liquor, shall be deemed, and held to be guilty of a 
.misdemeanor. 

Section 86. Irregularities or defects in the mode of 

^ Irre^laritiei la 

noticing, convening, holding or conducting an election 
•authorized by law shall constitute no defence to a 
prosecution for a violation of the provisions of this act. 

Section 87. Every act which, by the provisions of Criminal pro- 
this act or the general election laws, is made criminal I^t'aMofgea- 

o ' eral election 

when commited with reference to the election of a inTqSeS 
candidate, is equally criminal when committed with elector, 
reference to the determination of a question submitted 
to electors, to be decided by votes cast at an election. 

Section 88. Upon any prosecution for procuring, [ 

offering, or casting an illegal vote, the accused may 
give in evidence any fact tending to show that he 
honestly believed, upon good reason, that the vote 
complained of was a lawful one, and the jury may 


64 


take such facts into consideration in determining 
whether the acts complained of were willfully done 
or not. 


Meaning of word 
election as used 
in this act. 


Section 89. The word election, as used in this act, 
shall be construed to designate only elections had 
within the city and county of New York, for the pur¬ 
poses of enabling electors to choose some public offi¬ 
cer or officers, under the laws of this State or the 
United States, or to pass upon any amendment, law, 
or other public act or proposition submitted to vote by 
law. 


/ 


Boundaries of 
election dis¬ 
tricts to be ad- 
▼ertised. 


When. 


All places of 
registration and 
polling places. 


Official canvass 
to be advertised. 


All advertising 
in two daily 
newspapers. 


Numbers to be 
printed in num¬ 
erals oniy, 


Sec. 90. \A')nen(led hy chap. 823 of the laics of 
so as to read as follows :'\ The boundaries of all elec¬ 
tion districts, and the location of all places of registra¬ 
tion, revision of registration, or polling-places, shall be 
publicly advertised on the day preceding the first day 
of any general registration or revision of registration, 
and on each day of registration, revision of registration 
or day of election, and on such day or days only. The 
official canvass, immediately upon its completion and 
declaration by the board of county canvass, shall be 
publicly advertised for one day only. All advertising 
provided for in this section shall be done in two daily 
newspapers onl}", published in the city of New York, 
to be designated by the board of police, and all matter 
advertised shall be prepared and furnished the jour¬ 
nals in which it is to be inserted, free from necessary 
verbiage or repetition ; and in the publication of any 
official canvass, all numbers shall be printed in nume¬ 
rals only, and the statement or declaration shall be put 
in tabular form. 


65 


Section 91. The legal compensation of all inspectors 
of election and poll clerks and other officers of elec¬ 
tion, the cost and expenses of all necessary election 
notices, posters, maps, advertisments, registers, books, 
blanks and stationery, the rent and cost of fitting up, 
warming, lighting, cleaning, and safe-keeping of all 
places of registration, revision of registration and poll¬ 
ing places, of furnishing, repairing and carting ballot- 
boxes, and of all supplies of every kind and nature for 
all elections in the city and county of New York shall 
be a county charge, and shall, upon proper certificates 
and vouchers, be paid in the same manner as by law 
provided for the payment of other expenses of the said 
county of New York. 

The board of supervisors of the said county of New 
York shall, yearly, levy upon the estates, real and 
personal, of the said, city and county of New York, 
the amounts estimated to be required to pay the ex¬ 
penses of the registration, or revision of registration, 
and of all elections which may be held in said city and 
county during the year. 

Section 92. The act entitled “ An act to ascertain 
by proper proofs the citizens who shall be entitled to 
the rights of suffrage,” passed May 13, 1865 ; and the 
act entitled “ An act amendatory of and supplement¬ 
ary to chapter seven hundred and forty, of the laws of 
eighteen hundred and sixty five, entitled, ‘ An act to 
ascertain by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be 
entitled to the rights of suffrage,^ passed May 13, 
1865 passed April 25, 1866, and the act entitled 
“An act in relation to elections in the city and 
county of New York,” passed April 5, 1870; and the 
act entitled, “ An act to amend an act entitled : “An 
act in relation to elections in the city and county of 
New York,’ passed April 5, 1870,” passed April 18, 
1871, are hereby repealed and all other acts, or parts 
of acts, so far as the same are inconsistent with the pro- 


firpenses of 
elections to be » 
county charge, 
paid in same 
manner as other 
expenses of 
county. 


Board of supe^ 
visors to yearly 
levy the 
amounts re¬ 
quired to pay 
expenses of 
elections. 


Repealing 

clausa. 


66 


FroTiMt, 


Act to ta»:« 
•ffoct. wh«n. 


visions of this act, are hereby repealed, so far as they 
apply to the city or county of New York, but such repeal 
shall not revive any act or part of any act repealed 
by either of such laws. Nothing in this section 
contained shall be construed to in any manner 
affect any complaint, prosecution, indictment, or other 
criminal proceeding now pending, or that may here¬ 
after be made, had or found under the provisions of 
said acts or either of them, for any violation thereof 
which occurred before the passage of this act, but 
every such violation shall be punishable under the 
provisions of said acts or either of them, as though 
said acts were not repealed but still in force. 

Section 93. This act shall take effect as follows: 
Sections one to six, both inclusive ; section thirty-four, 
„sections thirty-six to thirty-nine, both inclusive ; section 
forty-one, sections forty-seven to fifty-five, both inclu¬ 
sive ; sections sixty-three to eightj-seven, both inclu¬ 
sive, and section ninety, shall take effect immediately ; 
and section ninety-two, so far as anything contained 
therein repeals acts or parts of acts inconsistent with 
the provisions of the above named sections, shall take 
effect immediately. Each and every section not here¬ 
inabove specified and section ninety-two, where not 
hereinbefore otherwise provided, shall take effect on 
the first day of June in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and seventy-two. 




Chapter 621. 

A.N Act to amend an act entitled “An Acf in relation to 
elections in the city and county of New York, and 
to provide for ascertaining, by proper proof, the 
citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage 
thereat,’’ passed May the ourteenth, eighteen hun¬ 
dred and seventy-two, being chapter six hundred 
and seventy-five of the laws of eighteen hundred 
and seventy-two, and the act or acts amendatory 
thereof, or supplementary thereto. 

Passed June 8th, 1874 ; three-fifths being present. 

Section 1. Amends Sec. 9 of Chap. 675 of the Laws of 
1872. [See page 6.] 

Section 2. Amends Sec. 37 of chap. 675 of the Laws 
of 1872. [See page 29.] 

Section 3. When the canvass of the ballots found in 
any box shall have been completed and public procla¬ 
mation made, as provided by law, the inspectors shall 
deliver to a patrolman on duty at the polling-places, a 
statement subscribed with their names, which shall be 
forthwith conveyed by the said patrolman to the station- 
house of the precinct where the polling-place is located, 
and the captain or sergeant in charge shall immediately 
transmit, by telegraph or otherwise, the result of such 
statement to the superintendent of police. Such state¬ 
ment shall contain the total number of votes in such 
ballot-box, and the number of votes found therein, for 
each and every candidate. The captain or sergeant in 
command shall immediately deliver said statement to 
the chief of the bureau of elections, whose duty it shall 
be to file and preserve the same. 


Inspectors to 
deliver statement 
of the canvass 
to captain or 
sergeant of policf 


Captains or ser¬ 
geants to deliver 
said statement to 
chief of bureau 
of elections. 



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INDEX. 



Appointment of Inspectors. 

poll-clerks. 

when made and by whom 
manner of. 



SEC. 


PAGE 


13 

13 

13 

13 


8 

8 

8 

9 


Assembly, Members of — 

ballot-box, how marked and numbered, 

on what ballot....;. 

how folded and indorsed . 



Aldermen elected by senate districts— • 

ballot for, how folded and indorsed 


..i t • 

Application for registration or offering to vote— 


may be challenged.... 

by whom and when... 

oaths to be administered in certain cases.‘... 

to personally apply to have names registered.. 

names to be entered of those who on next election would be 

entitled to vote in the district.,. 

in case of removal into the election district since last day of- 

general registration. 

conditions to be complied with. 

certificate of removal to be presented. 

change of residence, during the general registration or revision 

of registration, what to be done. 

change of residence between general registration and revision 
of registration, what to be done.... 



3 


14 ■ 
14 
14 
21 


10 

10 

10 

14 


22 


17 


22 

22 

22 


17 

17 

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Assembly Districts, when to be divided into election districts, 

Additional Kecord of Deaths— 

when to be made, what to contain, and when to be filed., 


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31 


B. 

Bills of Exchange, Bank Checks, etc 

Ballot-boxes, how marked and numbered.. 

how furnished.. 

stuffing.. 

stealing, etc., of... 

distributing, etc.. 


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81 

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Ballots (contents) for electors of “President”. 

“ Vice-President”. 

” “ Representative in Congress”... 

“ Senator”...•. 

“ Member of Assembly”. 

“Aldermen elected by Senate districts”. 

“ Civil Justice”..... 

“ Officers” (except as hereinbefore mentioned)., 

how folded and indorsed. 

how deposited.. 

remaining ballots to be destroyed. 

changing ballots, etc. 


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Ballots (sepaeate). See separate Ballot. 

Bukeau of Elections— 

How organized and by whom. . 

chief of bureau to be appointed by board of police. 

term of office—salary... 

how fixed—how removed.. 

former bureau of elections to turn over all documents, etc. 

former laws repealed and old bureau abolished. 

Board of Police— 

to establish a bureau of elections... 

bureau subject to rules and regulations of. 

to'appoint a chief of bureau.•.••••.. 

fix salary—and maj^ remove for cause. 

shall cause to be prepared books for registration of names, etc.. 

when and how the assembly districts shall be divided. 

shall not alter or change number or boundaries.. 

when to re-district into election districts. 

when to divide 23d and 24th Wards into election districts. 

may divide certain election districts. 

shall select and appoint inspectors and poll-clerks. 

remove and transfer. 

fill vacancies .. 

shall select four persons for each election district, two of each 

party.. 

designate and appoint places of registry and polling places.... 

Board of Supervisors— 

shall be the board of countj'^ canvassers. 

duty of. 

Boundaeies— 

of election districts to be arranged bj’^ the board of police. 

to be advertised—when and how. 


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Chief of Bureau of Elections— 

by whom appointed.;. 

term of office. 

salarji^, how fixed and paid. .’.... 

how removed. 

duties of—keep records. 

furnish books and stationery and all’needed supplies... 

to have charge of fitting up polling-places. 

to issue Registers in certain cases. 

to appoint a chief clerk . 

salary of chief clerk. 

other clerical force.. 

to qualify inspectors and poll-clerks. 

shall administer the oath prescribed. 

to keep a record of deaths of voters . 

how names are to be arranged. 

lists to be sent to inspector. 

shall keep an “ additional record of deaths ”. 

furnish copy to each inspectoi .'... 

permit public inspection of. 

“ “ “ data, register, etc. 

“ Certificate of Removal" from one election district to another 


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Compensation of Inspectors of Election 

poll-clerks. . 

no payments in certain cases.. 


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CoNGKESs, Representative in — 

ballot-box, how marked and numbered. 

on what ballot. 

how folded and indorsed. 

Canvass, how conducted. 

to commence at close of poll. 

proceeding. 

persons to witness the canvass... 

order of boxes in canvassing. 

process of canvassing. 

statement of canvass, what to contain. 

making, etc., of a false canvass felonious. 

Challengers to be protected at place of registration, etc. 

Certificate— 

of general registration. 

of revision of general registration. 

Chief Clerk— 

chief of bureau to appoint... 

salary of. 

shall administer oath of qualification to inspectors and poll- 
clerks . 

Challengers— 

each political party may have challengers. 

to be protected by inspectors. 

may be removed, etc. 

Certificate of Appointment— 

of inspectors of election. 

of poll-clerks. 

Clerk of Board of Supervisors— 

a statement of the canvass to be filed with. 

Clerk of the Common Council— 

to publish notice of election of municipal affairs. 

Convicted Felons— 

if unpardoned and attempt to vote, guilty of felony. 

County Clerk— 

a statement of the canvass to be filed with. 

a copy of the poll-list to be filed with. 

County Canvassers— 

board of supervisors shall be. 

their duty. 

County Canvass, how conducted. 

Changing Ballots, declared felonious.•• • .. 


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D. 

Documents, maps, etc.— 

to be furnished by chief of bureau. 

of former bureau to be transferred to new bureau... 

Data, Statistics, Kegisters, etc.— 

to be open during office hours for public inspection, 

Disorderly Persons— 

to be excluded from polling-places... 

Defrauding— 

a voter of his vote. 

a felonly—punishable. 


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Disobeying Oeders— 

of inspectors declared a misdemeanor. 

Disorderly Conduct— 

at the polls felonious. 

District Attorney— 

to prosecute all complaints. 

Distributing Ballots— 

in the polling-place a felony... • • 

E. 

Election days (legal holidays). 

Elections— 

how conducted. 

special how conducted. 

Election Districts— 

each election district to contain 250 voters.. 

number and boundaries not to be changed.. 

when to re-district the City... 

boundaries to be advertised. 

Electors of President, etc.-— 

ballot-boxes for... 

ballots for.. 

Excused from Seeatce— 

persons selected and notified of appointment as inspectors 
bound to serve unless excused by Board of Police. 

"‘Election Bureau Copy” of Register— 

what shall be known as.. 

what to contain. 

when and where to be filed.... 

Election District Officers— 

inspectors and poll-clerks are.;. 

have power to canvass their district within a certain period.... 

neglect of duty, how punished... . 

certain acts felonious. 

Evidence, prima facie.. 

new rule of. 

Election— 

meaning of word under this act. 

Expenses— 

of election to be a county charge. 

F. 

Felony— 

certain acts deemed .. .. 

how punished. 

False Swearing. 

Fines— 

IDersons neglecting or refusing to serve as inspector. 

Fokm— 

of ballots. . 

of register. 



































Form (continued)— 

of oath of qualification to be taken by inspectors.. 

of oath to witness test qualification of a voter. 

of oath to be administered to applicants to register 

of “oath of removal”... .. 

of “certificate of removal”. 

of certificate of general registration. 

of certificate of revision of general registration... 
of poll-lists of voters. 


G. 

General Registration of Voters— 

days of. 

manner of proceeding. 

duration of each session. 

how names, etc., are to be entered 

H. 

Holiday, Legal • .. 


I. 

Inspectors of Election— 

how chosen and appointed, and when.. 

transfers and removals to be made by the board of police. 

vacancies and removals to be filled “ “ “ . 

number of. 

political faith of. 

qualifications.... 

manner and time of appointment. 

oath of office, form of. 

certificate of .appointment. 

term of office. 

removal from office .. 

unexpired term . 

no inspector or poll-clerk to be transferred except.. 

compensation of.... 

how certified and paid. 

no payment in certain cases... 

if not qualified, a misdemeanor to act. 

exempt from military and jury duty. 

when to qualify. 

bound to serve unless excused. 

penalty for not serving.. 

what deemed a refusal.. 

to preserve order. 

to suppress riots. 

to protect voters and challengers. 

may deputize persons to assist . 

shall meet at the times and places designated, and a general 

registration. 

how to organize. 

to receive applications from persons who personally apply .... 

shall remain in session each day from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. 

to administer oaths. 

form of oath... 

examine each applicant as to his right to be registered. 

enter the names of applicants on the register. 

manner of making entries. 

to meet for any revision of any general registration on days 

designated ...' .... 

they shall perform their duties publicly. 

proceeding in case of revision of general registration. 

proceeding in case of change of residence. 

(( (( (( << 


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Inspectors of Election (contimied)— 

making, certifying, and filing cojDies of registers. 

(( ft (( a “ . 

each inspector to retain a copy of register for use on election day 
the “public copy” to be suspended at the place of registration, 

etc. ..... . 

name of person voting to be announced in a loud voice. 

proceeding on election day...... 

what to be done with the register at the completion of the canvass 

what to be done with register in case of resignation. 

to be in constant attendance during the time specified. 

have power to canvass their district within certain time. 

to proceed to canvass at close of polls. 

certain acts deemed felonious.... • • • 

shall deliver by patrolman to captain of police a statement ot 
the canvass...... 

Irregularities punishable.. .*. 

Illegal Kegistration— 

certain acts felonious. 

Intemperance at the polls, or going to and from. 

J. 

Justice of District Court— 

ballot-box, how marked and numbered. 

ballot, what to contain ..... 

how folded and indorsed.. 


L. 


Liquors— 

in polling-places declared misdemeanor 


Legal Holidays— 

election days are. 


M. 

Minors coming of age before Election-Day. 

Meeting days for future General Eegistration— 

Tuesday, four weeks preceding the day of November election.. 

Wednesday of the third week. 

Friday and Saturday of the second week. 

from 8 A. M. to 9 p. m. each day. 

revision of the general registration at other elections.. 

Friday and Saturday of second week preceding the day of every 
such election. 

Military and Jury Duty, exempt from— 

• inspectors of election.". 

poll-clerks. 

Misdemeanor— 

persons acting as inspectors of election or poll-clerks without 
being properly qualified, are deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 

Monthly Eeports— 

to be made to the chief of the bureau of elections by clerks of 
Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General and Special Sessions 

what to contain... 

neglect to comply deemed misdemeanor. 


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N. 

Neglect, AVelful— 

of duty by election district officers.!. 9 . 

“ or refusal to perform duties.... 

O . 

Officers— 

all elected at general election, except. 

to be voted for on one ballot. 

Oath— 

of inspectors of election.. 

to a witness as to the qualification of challenged electors. 

to test the qualifications of applicants for registration .;. 

to be administered to applicants in case of removal into another 
election district. 

Obder— 

how to keep, at place of registration, etc. 

Organization— 

of board of inspectors. 

Official Canvass— 

to be advertised. 


P. 

Polls— 

time of opening and closing. 

canvass to commence on the closing of. 

Poll-Clerks— 

how selected and appointed. 

board of police to make transfers and removals. 

*• “ fill all vacancies. 

number of and political faith of. 

qualification. 

to be sworn .... 

term of office. 

certificate of appointment. 

vacancies, how filled.^. 

compensation of. 

how paid.. 

no payments to be made in certain cases. 

a misdemeanor to act in certain cases. 

exempt from military and jury duty. 

shall keep poll list in ink. 

shall keep tally at the canvass.. 

shall subscribe each page of statement of canvass. 

certain acts felonious. 

Pay of different Election Officers. (See compensation.) 

no payments in certain cases. 

(( ii a 


Police, Department of— 

bureau of elections. ... 

captains or sergeants to deliver statement of the canvass to chief 
of the bureau of elections. 

Penalty— 

if persons selected and appointed as inspectors refuse or neglect 

to serve.. 

for committing certain acts... 

(( (( (( 


SEC. 


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^‘Public Copy” of Eeoistek— 

what shall he known.as . ’. 

what to contain... 

when, where, and how to be suspended. 

Polling-Places— 

chief of bureau have charge of fitting up. 

shall be designated by the board of police. 

liquor, gas, etc. 

entrance thereto not to be obstructed. 

to be advertised.. 

Proclamation— ... 

number of persons having voted to be ascertained and pro¬ 
claimed in a loud voice.:. 

number of ballots in each box to be proclaimed. 

on the completion of each box. 

Poll-Lists— 

. to be kept in ink by the poll-clerks. 

what to contain........ .. .. 

form of. 

to be certified and filed.. 

Prima Facie Evidence— 

proclamation of result of canvass. 

Persons not Election Officers— 

guilty of felony in performing certain acts..... ^ 

Perjury— 

false swearing declared .. 

subornation of. 

Places of Kegistration and Election— 

to be advertised.. 


Q. 

Qualifications— 

of inspectors of election . .. 

of poll-clerks...%.. 

two inspectors of election to be of different political faith from 

their associates.... 

one poll-clerk to be of different political faith from his associate 

Qualified Voters— 

may challenge or contest the right to registration or vote. 

E. 

Eegistration Books— 

form of.. . 

to be known by the name of registers. 

to contain the name of each street or avenue in each election 

district . 

to contain the name of all male persons applying for registration 

how ruled. 

when used .. 

Eegistration— 

applicants may be challenged. 

by whom. 

oath to be administered. 

form of oath.. 

future general registration. 

days of registration. 

for other elections. 


EC. 

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Registration (continued)— 

revision of registration. 

days of.. 

certificate of general registration. 

“ revision of general registration.. 

Registers of Voters, Form of—. 

manner in whicli the name of applicant shall be entered, resi¬ 
dence, etc... 

copies to be made and filed. 

to be made on days of general registration. 

to be made on revision of general registration. 

“ election bureau copy,” what shall be known as. 

“ public copy,” what shall be known as. 

checked registers to be filed. 

Refusal or Neglect to Serve or act— 

inspectors of election liable to penalty. 

what deemed a refusal. 

Removals of Inspectors of Election- 

manner of proceeding in cases of. 

proceedings in case of change of residence of applicants for 

registration. 

oath, form of. 

to be filed... 

certificate of. 

Record of Deaths of Voters— . 

when and how copies to be made. 

to be kept in bureaii of election. 

names of deceased voters to be alphabetically arranged. 

lists to be furnished the inspectors. 

what to be done with the lists... 

Re-Numbering— 

of any street, etc., within a certain period prohibited. 

Receipts— 

to be given on delivery of any statement, register, etc., which 

has been delivered. 

receipt to be filed with comptroller. 

no payment for services until complied with. 

Repealing Clause. 

Revision of General Registration— 

days of.. 

duties to be performed. 

manner of proceeding. 

s. 

Separate Ballot— 

names of candidates for certain offices to be on one ballot. 

contents—how folded, indorsed, and where deposited. 

names of candidates for certain offices to be on separate ballots 
contents—how indorsed, folded, and where deposited. 

Senator, State— 

ballot-box, how marked and numbered... 

on what ballot. 

how folded and indorsed.. 

Special Election— 

the manner of proceeding. 


SEC. 

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Statement of Canvass— 

what to contain. 

ballots to be attached thereto. 

triplicates to be made. 

contents of.. 

how sealed and directed.■. 

how endorsed.. 

by whom, to whom, and at what time to be delivered. 

Stuffing Ballot Boxes— 

declared felonious. 

Swearing Falsely— 

deemed perjury. 

instigating others to swear falsely. 

T. 

Term of Office— 

of inspectors of election. 

of poll clerks... 

of chief of bureau of elections. . 

Time— 

to open and close the polls. 

to establish a bureau of elections. 

to divide the assembly districts into election districts. 

to re-district. 

to appoint inspectors of election and poll-clerks. 

to qualily as inspector or poll-clerk after notice of appointment 

for the general registration. ...» . ; . 

for revision of general registration... 

when inspectors shall'meet. 

how long to remain in session each day. 

when to make copies of registers. 

when copies to be certified. 

when “election bureau copy” to be filed. 

when “ public copy” of registers to be made. 

“ “ “ “ filed. 

“ “ “ “ should be suspended. 

when to file the checked registers. 

when altering numbers of streets prohibited. 

Tickets— 

split, what are called. 

scratched, what are called. 

Tallies— 

to be kept by the poll-clerks. 

how endorsed and directed... 

manner of delivery. 


V. 

Voters— 

register of form of. 

to be protected at places of registration, etc ... 

Vacancies— 

in office of inspectors or poll-clerks, how filled 

w. 

Witnesses— 

to the canvass. 

their rights. 

each candidate for office may designate one .., 
to be protected. 


















































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